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The world of Colonial America comes vibrantly to life in this masterful new
historical thriller by Robert McCammon. The latest entry in the popular Matthew
Corbett series, which began with Speaks the Nightbird and continued in
The Queen of Bedlam, Mister Slaughter opens in the emerging
metropolis of New York City in 1702, and proceeds to take both Matthew and the
reader on an unforgettable journey of horror, violence, and personal
discovery.
The journey begins when Matthew, now an apprentice "problem
solver" for the London-based Herrald Agency, accepts an unusual and
hazardous commission. Together with his colleague, Hudson Greathouse, he
agrees to escort the notorious mass murderer Tyranthus Slaughter from an
asylum outside Philadelphia to the docks of New York. Along the way,
Slaughter makes his captors a surprising—and extremely
tempting—offer. Their response to this offer will alter the course
of the novel, setting in motion a series of astonishing, ultimately
catastrophic events.
Mister Slaughter is at once a classic portrait of an archetypal
serial killer and an exquisitely detailed account of a fledgling nation
still in the process of inventing itself. Suspenseful, illuminating,
never less than compulsively readable, it is, by any measure, an
extraordinary achievement, the largest accomplishment to date from one
of our most gifted—and necessary—writers.
— from the Subterranean Press site
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