by Lawrence Block (Author)
Nine long years have passed since the killer last struck. Nine years since eighthelpless young women were hideously slaughteredby an ice-pick wielding maniac. Now hard-drinking ex-cop and unlicensed investigator Matt Scudder has been hiredto bring the murderer to justice at last. Relentlessly Scudder follows an aging trail of blood towards a psychopath either long gone, long dead or very patiently awaiting the chance to kill again.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 272
Edition: New
Publisher: Orion
Published: 06 May 1997
ISBN 10: 1857997263
ISBN 13: 9781857997262
Book Overview: * First UK mass market paperback publication - with striking new cover design * First rate fiction from a Mystery Writers of America Grandmaster - his novels have won fourteen awards for crime fiction * The Matthew Scudder noverls are among the finest detective books penned in this century' Jonathan Kellerman * Blocks Matthew Scudder books are as enjoyable readable as any in the genre' Los Angeles Times * Scudder...continues to be one of the most interesting private investigators on the fiction scene' The Wall Street Journal