jjares reviewed on 11/10/2020 + 3500 more book reviews

After reading several of the later Matthew Scudder books, this one seemed less interesting. It is a fairly simple story about a sleazy man who leaves a package with Matt, in case he dies. Of course, something happens to Spinner (the sleazy acquaintance). Spinner was blackmailing three people and Matt meets with each of the parties. Matt wants to trap the killer by intimating that he is there to continue the blackmail. So essentially he is running a scam on the blackmail victims; he wants to see who killed Spinner.

This book just didn't ring my chimes. Maybe it was the sleazy characters Matt was working with; it was passable, but not great.

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