Now back in print, the acclaimed Matt Scudder novel in which the hard-nosed detective turns his life around. Forced to leave the N.Y.P.D., Matt Scudder survives the only way he knows how--drink by drink, until his barroom cronies lure him into some nasty business that includes blackmail, double cross and murder.
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Private investigators-- New York (State)-- New York, Fiction.
Scudder, Matt (Fictitious character), Fiction.
Detective and mystery stories.
Private investigators-- New York (State)-- New York, Fiction.