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A brilliant, fast-paced thriller from ‘a flat out entertainer’ Daily Telegraph
Also a major film starring Liam Neeson, Dan Stevens and Ruth Wilson – now available on Netflix
Kenan Khoury’s wife never returned from her shopping trip – at least, not alive. A ransom is demanded and paid; and his wife is duly returned to him – in small pieces in the boot of an abandoned car. But as Khoury’s wealth has not come entirely honestly, he can’t go to the police.
PI Matt Scudder is left to speculate on the motives of a very unusual kidnapper. And soon he is on the trail of a pair of ruthlessly sadistic psychopaths whose cruel games have only just begun…
Also a major film starring Liam Neeson, Dan Stevens and Ruth Wilson – now available on Netflix
Kenan Khoury’s wife never returned from her shopping trip – at least, not alive. A ransom is demanded and paid; and his wife is duly returned to him – in small pieces in the boot of an abandoned car. But as Khoury’s wealth has not come entirely honestly, he can’t go to the police.
PI Matt Scudder is left to speculate on the motives of a very unusual kidnapper. And soon he is on the trail of a pair of ruthlessly sadistic psychopaths whose cruel games have only just begun…
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Reviews
Block is a flat-out entertainer
If you know anything about this series, you'll know that it's the best there is, no argument ... Great stuff
Lawrence Block is a master ... the Matthew Scudder novels are among the finest detective books penned in this century
A tense plot, expressive writing and unusual and thoroughly real people with desperate problems. Not a book for the weak-hearted!
One of the very best writers now working the beat ... Block has done something new and remarkable with the private eye novel
Outstanding...excellent...a smoothly paced,deftly plotted,brightly phrased study of perversity
The next time that friends come to town expecting a personal tour of the real New York City, here's what to hand them: a subway map, a fistful of tokens, and Lawrence Block's big bruiser of a crime novel, A Walk Among the Tombstones
The Matt Scudder books are built on character, atmosphere, crackling dialogue and a great deal of brooding-the taste for them is addictive.
Matt Scudder is a superbly drawn, sympathetic character, but there's another reason for reading Scudder novels: no one does New York better than Lawrence Block
One of crime writing's most accomplished stylists
Enough pleasures and excitements to keep us smiling and breathing hard all the way through
One of the best ever. Block was, and remains, a pioneer