“When Lawrence Block is in his Matt Scudder mode, crime fiction can sidle up so close to literature that often there’s no degree of difference.”

~Philadelphia Inquirer

“One of the very best writers now working the beat. Block has done something new and remarkable with the private-eye novel.”

~Wall Street Journal

“Block’s prose is as smooth as aged whiskey.”

~Publishers Weekly

“One of the most complex and compelling heroes in modern fiction. Thrillers don’t get better than this.”

~San Diego Union-Tribune

“After twenty-five years in the business, Matt Scudder still strolls New York’s mean streets as if he had personally laid the cobblestones.”

~Marilyn Stasio, New York Times Book Review

“Matthew Scudder is the kind of mystery anti-hero who turns mere readers into series addicts.”

~Atlanta Journal-Constitution

“Much more than a mystery. A book about men, about booze, about New York, by one of the surest, most distinctive voices in American fiction.”

~Martin Cruz Smith

“Scudder is an original and these pages ring with all the authenticity of a blast from a .38.”

~Anniston Star

“Blocks characters, the bar-flies and the cops, are as much flesh and blood as any mystery writer’s working today.”

~Greensboro News and Record

“Consistently tasty and surprising, full of smart, ringing dialogue and multiple textures. If you prefer true grit, Matt Scudder’s your man.”

~Seattle Times