By: Lawrence Block
Genre: Mystery Private Eye | Thriller
Avon
October 1, 1990
On Sale: October 1, 1990
Featuring:
352 pages
ISBN: 0380709937
EAN: 9780380709939
Kindle: B000FC137C
Paperback / e-Book (reprint)
Book Summary
He’s Mick Ballou, the Butcher Boy, and his bloodstained apron passes for formal dress in Hell’s Kitchen. That makes him just part of the scenery for Matt Scudder. Scudder’s off the booze now, trying to stay sober in a city gone mad. In the sacred ginmills and dim church basements of Hell’s Kitchen, in the alleys and doorways and subway tunnels where addicts suck on crack pipes and homeless families pitch cramp, he haunts the cold trail of a lost ingenue and finds love and death in all the wrong places. His relentless hunt pays off in a jolting climax that will rattle your teeth and shake you to the soles of your shoes.