Twenty-five years
ago, Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Lawrence Block introduced
his acclaimed unlicensed private investigator to the New York crime
scene. Today Matthew Scudder remains one of the most complex, richly
human protagonists in noir fiction -- as he pursues a faceless
adversary with a unique talent and taste for murder.
When Byrne
and Susan Hollander are killed in a brutal home invasion, the whole
city catches its collective breath. A few days later the killers turn
up dead behind a locked door in Brooklyn. One has killed his partner,
then himself. The city sighs with relief. The cops close the case.
Matt
and Elaine Scudder were in the same room with the Hollanders hours
before their deaths. In spite of himself, Scudder is drawn to the
Hollander case. The closer he looks, the more he senses the presence of
a third man, a puppet master who manipulated his two accomplices, then
cut their strings when he was done with them.
The villain who
looms in the shadows is one of Block's most inspired creations, cold
and diabolical, murdering for pleasure and profit. Nobody but Scudder
even suspects he exists -- and he's not done killing.
He's just getting started....
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