Lawrence Block: Hope to Die (USA 2002) From the Publisher: There's something drawing Matthew Scudder to this case that the cops have quickly and eagerly closed: a nagging suspicion that a third man is involved, a cold, diabolical puppet master who manipulates his two accomplices, then cuts their strings when he's done with them. No one but Scudder even suspects he exists. And his worst fear is that the guy is just getting started... Lawrence Block: Hope to Die. Harpertorch, ISBN: 006103097X (November, 2002), 400 p., $7.99.
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Lawrence Block: Hope to Die (UK 2002) From the Publisher: Lawrence Block: Hope to Die. Orion Books, ISBN: 0752848178 (September, 2002), 340 p., £6.99.
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Lawrence Block: Hope to Die (USA 2001) From the Publisher: When Byrne and Susan Hollander are killed in a brutal home invasion, the whole city catches its collective breath. A few days later the 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. Matt and Elaine Scudder were in the same room with the Hollanders hours before their deaths. In spite of himself, Scudder is drawn to the Hollander 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 one of Block's most inspired creations, 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... Lawrence Block: Hope to Die. William Morrow, ISBN: 006019832X (November, 2001), 320 p., $25.00.
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