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

Autorentext

Lawrence Block has been writing award-winning mystery and suspense fiction for half a century. His newest book, pitched by his Hollywood agent as "James M. Cain on Viagra," is The Girl with the Deep Blue Eyes. His other recent novels include The Burglar Who Counted The Spoons, featuring Bernie Rhodenbarr; Hit Me, featuring philatelist and assassin Keller; and A Drop Of The Hard Stuff, featuring Matthew Scudder, brilliantly embodied by Liam Neeson in the new film, A Walk Among The Tombstones. Several of his other books have also been filmed, although not terribly well. He's well known for his books for writers, including the classic Telling Lies For Fun & Profit and Write For Your Life, and has just published a collection of his writings about the mystery genre and its practitioners, The Crime Of Our Lives. In addition to prose works, he has written episodic television (Tilt!) And the Wong Kar-wai film, My Blueberry Nights. He is a modest and humble fellow, although you would never guess as much from this biographical note.