Book Reviews of A Walk Among the Tombstones

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A new breed of entrepreneurial monster has setup shop in the big city-ruthless,sadistic,ingenious butchers who prey on the loved ones of those living outside the law. Matthew Scudder has no love for the poison peddlers-but drug dealers can't turn to the police for help. It falls to the unlicensed excop-turned p.i.to put the thrill-kill extortionists out of business.

In "Tombstones," a drug dealer whose wife was kidnapped and hideously murdered hires Scudder to track down the perpetrators. Scudder quickly discovers that the deed was the work of a team of serial killers who have decided to turn their "fun" into profit. Like most novels in the Scudder series, this one is dark and obssessed with death. It seems that even as the alcoholic Scudder gets more of a firm handle on his sobriety and his life, his cases get uglier.

A woman is kidnapped. Her husband is a heroin dealer. He responds to the kidnappers demands and pays to get her back..in pieces. Ex-cop Matthew Scudder must try to save her. Exciting, ruthess, suspenseful.

SYNOPSIS
A new breed of entrepreneurial monster has set up shop in the big city. Ruthless, ingenious murderers, they prey on the loved ones of those who live outside the law—knowing full well that criminals will never run to the police no matter how brutal the threat. So other avenues for justice must be explored—which is where ex-cop-turned-p.i. Matthew Scudder comes in. Scudder has no love for the drug dealers and poison peddlers who now need his help. Nevertheless, he is determined to do whatever it takes to put an elusive pair of thrill-kill extortionists out of business. For they are using the innocent to fuel their terrible enterprise.

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