Out On The Cutting Edge
It isn't called Hell's Kitchen for nothing - a gritty landscape of dark doorways and dirty alleys inhabited by crack addicts and the homeless.For ex-cop Matt Scudder it's a city gone mad, but it's a city he can't leave. He's been hired to find would-be actress Paula Hoeldtke, but as the trail of...
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It isn't called Hell's Kitchen for nothing - a gritty landscape of dark doorways and dirty alleys inhabited by crack addicts and the homeless.For ex-cop Matt Scudder it's a city gone mad, but it's a city he can't leave. He's been hired to find would-be actress Paula Hoeldtke, but as the trail of the missing girl gets colder, the city is heating up to boiling point...
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Format: kindle
ASIN: B005LWR7EE
Publisher: Orion
Pages no: 244
Edition language: English
Series: Matthew Scudder (#7)
It's been a little over three years since the events in the stellar Eight Million Ways To Die, and Matt has successfully been able to stay sober and regularly participate in AA meetings. A man hires him to track down his missing actress daughter and we're off to the races with my next Matthew Scudde...
I decided to bump it to 5 overnight. Solid 4.5.Looking forward to more of the future Scudder novels.
Potentially Unnecessary Preamble I have this thing, a compulsion perhaps, wherein I cannot not finish a book (yes, that double negative needed to happen). I always worry that the ending will be so amazing as to have made any pain involved in the process worth it (that, and I've managed to convince m...
Potentially Unnecessary PreambleI have this thing, a compulsion perhaps, wherein I cannot not finish a book (yes, that double negative needed to happen). I always worry that the ending will be so amazing as to have made any pain involved in the process worth it (that, and I've managed to convince my...
Another fine entry into the Scudder canon. Scudder is always saying he's had a flexible kind of morality, but the truth is, he's one of the most ethical people around, and this book shows the extent of his growth. He tries to do right and be fair, even if it's dealing with a small-time hood or a men...
11 years ago
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