by Lawrence Block (Author)
Big time dope dealer Kenan Khoury is a wealthy man.Then one fine Spring morning his wife Francine is kidnapped and a ransom is demanded.Kenan pays and his wife is duly returned to him-in small pieces in the boot of an abandoned car.Leaving PI Matt Scudder to speculate on the motives of a very unusual kidnapper.Soon Scudder is on the trail of a pair of ruthlessly sadistic psycopaths whose cruel games hve only just begun...
Format: Paperback
Pages: 320
Edition: New
Publisher: Orion
Published: 06 Oct 1994
ISBN 10: 1857993020
ISBN 13: 9781857993028
Book Overview: The most powerful novel yet in Lawrence Block's acclaimed Matt Scudder series 'Lawrence Block is a master...the Matthew Scudder novels are among the finest detective books penned in this century' JONATHAN KELLERMAN 'Outstanding...excellent...a smoothly paced,deftly plotted,brightly phrased study of perversity' CHICAGO TRIBUNE Reissued alongside THE DEVIL KNOWS YOU'RE DEAD (new in paperback) and A LONG LINE OF DEAD MEN