Hope to Die (Matthew Scudder). This item is unavailable.Hope to Die (Matthew Scudder)

The city caught its collective breath when upscale couple Byrne and Susan Hollander were slaughtered in a brutal home invasion. Now, a few days later, the killers themselves have turned up dead behind the locked door of a Brooklyn hellhole -- one apparently slain by his partner in crime who then took his own life.

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 writes terrific books. His Matthew Scudder series is his best work."--The Boston Sunday Globe

"[Block's] prose is as smooth as aged whiskey...and the story flows across its pages."--Publishers Weekly

"Compelling...One can only hope the Matt Scudder series will live on."--Entertainment Weekly

"A puzzler...So dry. So droll. So good for the native soul."--Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review

"It's all here; a perfect evocation of the sights, sounds, and smells of New York City."--Library Journal

"Remarkable...Block [is] one of the most graceful stylists around."--The Washington Post Book World