“Block’s masterpiece and the best of the Matt Scudder series. More than a mystery, it is a novel about men, about drinking, about talking, about the city of New York . . . This is American writing at its finest, as taut as a hang-rope and as gut-wrenching as the consequent drop. If Block had written nothing except this he’d still beup there with the immortals.” Irish Times
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