A Walk Among the Tombstones (Matthew Scudder)
Format: kindle
ISBN:
9781937698898
Publish date: November 19th 2013
Publisher: Telemachus Press, LLC
Pages no: 308
Edition language: English
Series: Matthew Scudder (#10)
A young lady is snatched by a pair of lowlifes and held for ransom. Her husband, drug dealer Kenan Khoury, is forced to cough up four hundred thousand for her safe return. Upon payment, her husband is told to collect her from the trunk of a car not far from his home. Hoping to reunite with his mi...
Block opens the book with an "English lullaby" that is pretty much guaranteed to cause sleeplessness in any child listening. It might scare them quiet, however: "baby, baby if he hears you/As he gallops past the house/Limb from limb at once he'll tear you/Just as a pussy tears a mouse." A gruesome a...
Had some class, Shalimar the Clown, which I loved/hated all at the same time now new-to-me author Block can spread out his wears for inspection.home audio
A gang of psychopaths kidnap, rape, torture, and murder a drug dealer's wife after getting a ransom from him. The drug dealer hires Matthew Scudder to find the men for him. But was this the only time the psychopaths have struck? And will they strike again...?As the series goes by, Matthew Scudder...
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