Butcher's Road (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781590214701)

1932: Fortune and celebrity are years behind Butch Cardinal. Once a world-class wrestler, Cardinal now serves as hired muscle for a second-rate Chicago mobster. While collecting a parcel from a gangland lowlife, Cardinal witnesses the man's murder. Though wounded, he escapes the killers and flees into the night carrying the package. In it is a necklace with a metal pendant. Bent and scratched, the thing looks like a piece of junk, but the trinket is the reason a man died. It's the reason a lot of people will die. Finding shelter with another shamed wrestler in New Orleans, Cardinal embarks on search for answers that will reveal a world of metallic charms and weapons, all forged with unimaginable powers. Alone and outgunned, Cardinal must stand against the Chicago mobs, a brilliant and insane hitman, the police, and a mysterious order intent on retrieving their relic.

Author: Lee Thomas
ISBN-10: 1590214706
ISBN-13: 9781590214701
Publisher: Lethe Press
Language: English
Published: 05/15/2014
Pages: 318
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.03lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.71d
Award: Lambda Literary Awards - Finalist

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 03/17/2014
Kirkus Reviews 06/01/2014 pg. 32