Eight Million Ways to Die (42 page)
Scudder knows that no one is innocent-- but who among us has the right to play God? It is a question that will haunt the newly licensed P.I.. on his journey through the bleak city grays as he searches for the sanity in urban madness... and for a frighteningly efficient killer who can do the impossible.
Everybody Dies
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.
A New York Times and Publishers Weekly Notable Book HOPE TO DIE
A Matthew Scudder Crime Novel
When a prominent Manhattan couple is killed in a brutal home invasion, the whole city catches its breath.
A few days later, their killers turn up dead behind a locked door in Brooklyn. One has killed his partner, then himself.
The city sighs with relief. The cops close the case.
Private investigator Matt Scudder and his wife were in the same room with the couple just hours before their death, and in spite of himself, Scudder is drawn to the case. The closer he looks, the more he senses the presence of a third man, a puppet master who manipulated his two accomplices, then cut their strings when he was done with them.
The villain who looms in the shadows is cold and diabolical, murdering for pleasure and profit. Nobody but Scudder even suspects he exists-- and he's not done killing.
He's just getting started...
A frightened hooker named Kim asked private investigator Matthew Scudder to help her get out of "the Life." Now she's dead, slashed to ribbons in a high-rise hotel. Finding her killer will be Scudder's penance. But there are lethal secrets hiding in Kim's past that are far dirtier than her trade-- and many ways to die in this cruel and dangerous town.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
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