Everybody dies

Description:

Matt Scudder is finally leading a comfortable life. Then all hell breaks loose. "A taut noir story ... one of Lawrence Block's best" (Cleveland Plain Dealer).Matt Scudder is finally leading a comfortable life. The crime rate's down and the stock market's up. Gentrification's prettying-up the old neighborhood. The New York streets don't look so mean anymore.Then all hell breaks loose.Scudder quickly discovers the spruced-up sidewalks are as mean as ever, dark and gritty and stained with blood. He's living in a world where the past is a minefield, the present is a war zone, and the future's an open question. It's a world where nothing is certain and nobody's safe, a random universe where no one's survival can be taken for granted. Not even his own.A world where everybody dies.

subjects: Fiction,  Organized crime,  Irish Americans,  Private investigators,  Criminals,  Vendetta,  Matt Scudder (Fictitious character),  Mystery,  Detective and mystery stories,  Scudder, matt (fictitious character), fiction,  Irish americans, fiction,  New york (n.y.), fiction,  Fiction, mystery & detective, hard-boiled,  Private investigators, fiction,  Large type books,  Murder,  Investigation

Places: New York (State),  New York,  New York (N.Y.)