A Long Line Of Dead Men

Members of an ancient fraternity that meets each year in a Manhattan restaurant asks P.I. Matthew Scudder to investigate a baffling, 30-year run of suicides and suspiciously random accidents that has thinned the ranks of this very select group of gentlemen. Now repackaged with a new cover. (July) Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Matthew Scudder's 12th adventure is at once a pulse-pounding thriller and an elegiac meditation on aging and mortality and the passage of time. Enlisted to investigate the seemingly improbable death rate of the members of a Club of Thirty-one, Scudder finds himself pitted against an unseen killer whose patience is equaled only by his merciless determination.Reviews:"Fiendishly clever. A welcome visit with an old friend. Lawrence Block's Matthew Scudder series is one of the sure things in crime fiction and A Long Line of Dead Men carries it forward with a fine flourish." ~Los Angeles Times Book Review"Matthew Scudder has evolved into the perfect noir hero." ~Entertainment Weekly"Ingenious, satisfying, consistently strong. It's a good one." ~Baltimore Sun"Gritty, letter perfect, a remarkable novel. Block has never been in better form. His decidedly dark sense of humor has never been in better focus." ~The New York Times Book Review"Far out of the ordinary. An intelligent detective story that plays fair with the reader, and yet will keep you guessing until the very end." ~Rochester Post-Bulletin

Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.

**A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER** Mark Renton from Trainspotting is back – and he’s finally a success An international jet-setter, he now makes significant money managing DJs, but the constant travel, airport lounges, soulless hotel rooms and broken relationships have left him dissatisfied with his life. He’s then rocked by a chance encounter with Frank Begbie, from whom he’d been hiding for years after a terrible betrayal and the resulting debt. But the psychotic Begbie appears to have reinvented himself as a celebrated artist and – much to Mark’s astonishment – doesn’t seem interested in revenge. Sick Boy and Spud, who have agendas of their own, are intrigued to learn that their old friends are back in town, but when they enter the bleak world of organ-harvesting, things start to go so badly wrong. Lurching from crisis to crisis, the four men circle each other, driven by their personal histories and addictions, confused, angry – so desperate that even Hibs winning the Scottish Cup doesn’t really help. One of these four will not survive to the end of this book. Which one of them is wearing Dead Men’s Trousers? ‘Welsh is on compulsively readable, searingly funny form’ The Times ‘No one captures the competing affections and resentments that underpin lifelong friendships like Welsh’ Esquire

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Dr. Jaguar Addams knows about fear. On a satellite prison called Planetoid Three, she establishes a telepathic link to her subjects. She confronts their demons. And makes them her own . . . They were known as the Killing Times, when serial murder reached epidemic proportions. Victims of hard-edged crime demanded hard-wired punishment, and the new prisons were born. Now one determined woman, a survivor of that dark age, tries to rehabilitate killers by tapping into the source of their obsessions: their worst fears. Her name is Jaguar Addams, and she is about to face the most challenging subject of her career. The ultimate assassin. A dangerously disturbed woman who will teach Jaguar the true meaning of fear.