Author(s): Odo Hirsch

Fiction

A darkly compelling historical fantasy, for teenagers and adults, about an orphan boy's life of scavenging, conniving and survival against the odds in the villainous world of a medieval city.

Go back 500 years.

You're alone.

What does it take to survive?

If you do survive,

what kind of person have you become?

On the streets of a medieval town, an abandoned child scavenges to stay alive.

A slaughterman takes him in, teaches him the secrets of his bloody trade. But when the slaughterman is gone, the boy is adrift in a world of cheats, murderers and thieves.

In Slaughterboy beats a town's dark heart, and destruction comes in many forms.