He came to England to rest. He calls himself Michael Schaefer, says he's a retired American businessman. He goes to the races, dates a kinky aristocrat, and sleeps with dozens of weapons. 10 years ago it was different. Then, he was a butcher's boy, the highly skilled mob Hitman who pulled a Slaughter job on some double crossing clients and started a mob war. Ever since, there's been a price on his head. Now, after a decade, they found him. The butcher's boy escapes back to the states with more reasons to kill. Until the odds turn terrifyingly against him. Until the mafia, the cops, the fbi, and the damn justice department want his hide. Until he's locked into a cross country Odyssey of fear and death that could tear his world to pieces.