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Matthew Scudder, ex-cop and recovering alcoholic, has finally gtten his life together. Suddenly, trouble arrives in the form of and old enemy, psychotic James Leo Motley, who is brutally murdering anyone close to Scudder--with Scudder's name on the list! Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
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Twelve years ago, Matthew Scudder lied to a jury to put James Leo Motley behind bars. Now the ingenious psychopath is free. And the alcoholic ex-cop-turned-p.i. must pay dearly for his sins. Friends and former lovers -- even strangers unfortunate enough to share Scudder's name -- are turning up dead. Because a vengeful maniac is determined not to rest until he's driven his nemesis back to the bottle...and then to the boneyard.
Author Notes
Lawrence Block is the author of the popular series' featuring Bernie Rhodenbarr, Matthew Scudder, and Chip Harrison. Over 2 million copies of Lawrence Block's books are in print. He has published articles and short fiction in American Heritage, Redbook, Playboy, GQ, and The New York Times, and has published several collections of short fiction in book form, most recently Collected Mystery Stories.
Block is a Grand Master of Mystery Writers of America. He has won the Edgar and Shamus awards four times, the Japanese Maltese Falcon award twice, as well as the Nero Wolfe award. In France, he was proclaimed a Grand Maitre du Roman Noir and has been awarded the Societe 813 trophy twice. Block was presented with the key to the city of Muncie, Indiana, and is a past president of the Private Eye Writers of America and the Mystery Writers of America.
(Bowker Author Biography)
Lawrence Block is the author of the popular series' featuring Bernie Rhodenbarr, Matthew Scudder, and Chip Harrison. Over 2 million copies of Lawrence Block's books are in print. He has published articles and short fiction in American Heritage, Redbook, Playboy, GQ, and The New York Times, and has published several collections of short fiction in book form, most recently Collected Mystery Stories.
Block is a Grand Master of Mystery Writers of America. He has won the Edgar and Shamus awards four times, the Japanese Maltese Falcon award twice, as well as the Nero Wolfe award. In France, he was proclaimed a Grand Maitre du Roman Noir and has been awarded the Societe 813 trophy twice. Block was presented with the key to the city of Muncie, Indiana, and is a past president of the Private Eye Writers of America and the Mystery Writers of America.
(Bowker Author Biography)
Reviews (4)
Publisher's Weekly Review
A call girl warns former cop Matthew Scudder that a homicidal psycho he helped convict is out of jail and seeking revenge. ``The New York settings are superbly authentic, the dialogue is hip . . . and the resolution . . . is hair-raising,'' said PW. (Dec.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
Kirkus Review
Matthew Scudder's exceptionally gripping eighth outing finds the unlicensed, alcoholic Gotham p.i. (Out on the Cutting Edge, 1988, etc.) pitted against a human monster. The trouble starts when Matt's friend, call-girl Elaine Mardell, is mailed a clipping on the mass murder/suicide of an Ohio family. Only one man, Elaine reasons, could have sent the clipping, because only he could know that the slain wife was once Elaine's fellow hooker: James Leo Motley, a sadistic, necrophiliac psycho just released from a prison sentence that Matt and Elaine framed him into 12 years before. When Matt gets an identical clipping, he too is convinced that Motley killed the family, and he flies to Ohio to try--with little success--to convince the local police of the same. Returning to New York, Matt plunges into hell: a vengeful Motley is stalking and killing women tied to Matt, however loosely. The maniac throws one of Matt's A.A. friends from a 22-story window, then savages a woman with the last name of Scudder, no relation. Despairing, Matt loses his edge and is lured into an abandoned lot where Motley tortures him--and leaves him slinking off for a bottle of bourbon. But rage replaces thirst: Matt goes out and beats up an obnoxious punk, then hangs out with friend Mickey Ballou, a career criminal. The rage becomes fierce when Matt learns that Motley has rope-tortured Elaine to the edge of death, leading the p.i. to dispense vigilante justice in a brutal, shocking conclusion. More thriller than mystery, and a powerful one: with Motley a kind of absolute evil against which Matt measures his own frailities and strengths, this sensitive and entertaining case is the series' richest since Eight Million Ways to Die--a must for Block/ Scudder fans. Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
Publisher's Weekly Review
A call girl warns former cop Matthew Scudder that a homicidal psycho he helped convict is out of jail and seeking revenge. ``The New York settings are superbly authentic, the dialogue is hip . . . and the resolution . . . is hair-raising,'' said PW. (Dec.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
Kirkus Review
Matthew Scudder's exceptionally gripping eighth outing finds the unlicensed, alcoholic Gotham p.i. (Out on the Cutting Edge, 1988, etc.) pitted against a human monster. The trouble starts when Matt's friend, call-girl Elaine Mardell, is mailed a clipping on the mass murder/suicide of an Ohio family. Only one man, Elaine reasons, could have sent the clipping, because only he could know that the slain wife was once Elaine's fellow hooker: James Leo Motley, a sadistic, necrophiliac psycho just released from a prison sentence that Matt and Elaine framed him into 12 years before. When Matt gets an identical clipping, he too is convinced that Motley killed the family, and he flies to Ohio to try--with little success--to convince the local police of the same. Returning to New York, Matt plunges into hell: a vengeful Motley is stalking and killing women tied to Matt, however loosely. The maniac throws one of Matt's A.A. friends from a 22-story window, then savages a woman with the last name of Scudder, no relation. Despairing, Matt loses his edge and is lured into an abandoned lot where Motley tortures him--and leaves him slinking off for a bottle of bourbon. But rage replaces thirst: Matt goes out and beats up an obnoxious punk, then hangs out with friend Mickey Ballou, a career criminal. The rage becomes fierce when Matt learns that Motley has rope-tortured Elaine to the edge of death, leading the p.i. to dispense vigilante justice in a brutal, shocking conclusion. More thriller than mystery, and a powerful one: with Motley a kind of absolute evil against which Matt measures his own frailities and strengths, this sensitive and entertaining case is the series' richest since Eight Million Ways to Die--a must for Block/ Scudder fans. Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.