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There is absolutely no accolade or major puzzle award that has not already been bestowed after Lawrence Stop. His acclaimed offense novels are as wise, provocative, and emotionally complex as they are nerve-tighteningly intense. And perhaps the esteemed of his myriad works will be the Matthew Scudder books - masterworks of suspenseful invention featuring a impressive protagonist rich in conscience and identity, with all the current defects that his humanity entails. This is the detective novel as high art. In Matt Scudder's brain, money, ability, and position elevate no one above morality or the law. Now the ex-cop and unlicensed PI has been chosen to confirm that socialite Richard Thurman orchestrated the brutal murder of his beautiful, pregnant better half. During Scudder's hard-drinking years, he remaining a bit of his spirit on every seedy corner of the Big Apple. But this case is more depraved plus more potentially destructive than anything he experienced while floundering in the urban depths. Because this investigation is leading Scudder on the frightening grand head to of New York's sex-for-sale underworld - where an innocent young life is merely a commodity to be bought and perverted ... and then ruined.
