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Battling the bottle one day at a time, ex-cop, sometime PI Matthew Scudder finds that next to staying sober, staying alive seems easy. But in the mean streets of New York City it never is. Not for the prostitute who wanted out and got her beautiful self slashed to ribbons. Not for a pimp named Chance who is betting his life that the broken-down detective can find her murderer. And not for Matthew Scudder-just trying to stay alive in a city that knows nothing better than how to die.
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"Superb…An exceptional novel…Remarkably rich in plot, character development, and crackling dialogue."
San Diego Union-Tribune
"The author's gifts lie more in writing, which he accomplishes with aplomb, than narrating, which he accomplishes with a high baritone that quavers as if he could break out weeping any moment. But he never does. In fact, once you get used to him, he's pretty entertaining. A nerdy sort of tough shamus. By the end of the last tape, you can't imagine anyone else impersonating Scudder."
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"Block's latest novel is both a rousing private-eye story and an extended meditation on the whimsical ways of death-through freak accident, premeditated murder, and self-destruction…A magnificently plotted, sensitive portrayal of two kinds of death-the kind that comes as an intruder and the kind that comes as an invited guest."
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- SeriesMatthew Scudder #5