Sentence of the Day: The Butcher’s Boy, p. 155 | Kanlaon

Sentence of the Day: The Butcher’s Boy, p. 155

October 11, 2021 at 4:35 pm (Artists and Writers, Books, destinations, Recommended)
Tags: COVID Reading, Las Vegas, Mondays, mysteries, novel, reading lists, Thomas Perry, thrillers

What is it about Las Vegas? It just seems to pull the best writing out of writers, especially writers of noir. Which Thomas Perry definitely is.

The dealer looked young, his carefully sculpted hair blond from the sun, but already he had the ageless look of detached competence they all seemed to have worn into them.

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