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"One million dollars cash, or we kill your wife." High-volume dope dealers make an easy mark for kidnappers. After all, what are they going to do, call the cops? But Kenan Khoury, heroin wholesaler to the five boroughs, haggled over the price, and his wife came back in pieces. The only person he can trust to avenge her is Matt Scudder, ex-cop, sober alcoholic, who wields his own brand of guerrilla justice.
Scudder enlists his call-girl girlfriend Elaine, a streetwise punk from Times Square, and two phone-phreak computer geniuses to track the killers through the backstreets of Brooklyn. But the killers' depravity is matched only by their cleverness, and their next target is a little girl. In one of Block's most electrifying denouements, Scudder turns a cold trail into a red-hot explosion one rainy night in a Brooklyn cemetery.
Crackling with the city's energy, A Walk Among the Tombstones weds the breakneck suspense of A Ticket to the Boneyard to the relentless moral vision of A Dance at the Slaughterhouse. It is Lawrence Block's finest, most deeply satisfying novel, and a virtuoso performance.
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Mystery, Drug traffic, Private investigators, Detective and mystery stories, Fiction, Matt Scudder (Fictitious character), Kidnapping, Large type books, New York Times reviewed, New york (n.y.), fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, hard-boiled, Scudder, matt (fictitious character), fiction, Private investigators, fiction, Scudder, Matt (Fictitious character)Places
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A Walk Among the Tombstones (A Matt Scudder Mystery)
November 15, 2004, Orion mass market paperback, Orion Paperbacks
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Walk among Tombstones Palm Read Eb
2002, HarperCollins Publishers Limited
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A Walk Among the Tombstones: A Matthew Scudder Crime Novel
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Xing guo si yin zhi di: A walk along the tombstones
1998, Mai tian chu ban, fa xing Cheng bang wen hua
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A walk among the tombstones
1996, Phoenix, Orion Publishing Group, Limited
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A walk among the tombstones.
1993, Orion, Orion Publishing Group, Limited
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1993, Orion, Orion Publishing Group, Limited
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Matthew Scudder Crime Novel #10. "When Lawrence Block is in his Matthew Scudder mode, crime fiction can sidle up so close to literature that often there's no degree of difference" (The Philadelphia Inquirer).
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