Everybody Dies (Matthew Scudder Book 14)

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.Here’s what some reviewers had to say:“The body count is indeed high in this latest Matt Scudder tale, which is also the best since A Walk Among the Tombstones —resonant, thoughtful, richly textured and capped by a slam-bang windup. Block's seamless weave of thought and action, and his matchless gift for dialogue that is true, funny and revealing, have seldom been on more effective display. The pages leading up to the climax have an almost Shakespearean feel for human resignation in the face of mortality.” ~Publishers Weekly“A taut noir story, one of Lawrence Block's best,” ~Cleveland Plain Dealer“The Philadelphia Inquirer adds, “Devastating! One of the most harrowing yet most rewarding chapters in ther education of a hero.” ~Philadelphia Inquirer"Very, very dark. Also very, very good." ~Denver Post