Title: confused story line obscures the author's strengths
Product review: Non-Matt Scudder fans will wonder why all the enthusiasm for previous volumes with the same hero if this is the first book that they read. Block fails to embody his all too human hero with the life necessary to carry two plots. A re-reading makes the reader think that the book would have been better as a short story. Fans may enjoy revisiting the familiar cast of characters but readers looking for a great novel about New York and Scudder, the troubled detective, should perhaps find a copy of "The Devil Knows You're Dead 0r any others in the Scudder canon
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