Metzger's Dog

ALSO BY THOMAS PERRY

The Butcher’s Boy

Big Fish

Island

Sleeping Dogs

Vanishing Act

Dance for the Dead

Shadow Woman

The Face-Changers

Blood Money

Death Benefits

Pursuit

Dead Aim

Nightlife

Praise for Metzger’s Dog

“Total pleasure and satisfaction.”

—The New Yorker

“Perry has tucked imagination and ingenuity sufficient for ten books into Metzger’s Dog.”

—The Washington Post Book World

“[A] loop on the roller coaster of contemporary thrillers…[Perry] once again pulls it off…. We come away from Metzger’s Dog having had a thoroughly enjoyable time.”

—The New York Times

“Perry treats his complex plot the way a clever juggler does his oranges: Everything seems to float effortlessly.”

—People

“Madly inventive.”

—Chicago Sun-Times

“A romp of a thriller.”

—San Francisco Chronicle

“A fine example of an offshoot of the hard-boiled novel that has more to do with style and cynical humor than it does with solving a particular crime…It is Perry’s talent to be able to bring his elegant, multitextured thriller to a close with a confrontation between [his two] foes that is as bloodless as it is satisfying.”

—Los Angeles

“Perry has a master’s touch in knowing how to combine breathtaking suspense and the most intricate plotting and counterplotting.”

—Publishers Weekly

“Brilliantly plotted…should please fans of Graham Greene, fans of Cheech and Chong, and most anyone in between!”

—Newsday

“In addition to his award-winning ability to write suspenseful fiction, Thomas Perry has a wonderful sense of humor, and you may walk away with a completely different view of the CIA…not to mention your pet cat.”

—KEN GODDARD, author of Prey and The Alchemist

Copyright © 1983 by Thomas Perry

Introduction copyright © 2003 by Carl Hiaasen