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In the dark days, in a sad and lonely place, ex-cop Matt Scudder is drinking his life away -- and doing "favors" for pay for his ginmill cronies. But when three such assignments flow together in dangerous and disturbing ways, he'll need to change his priorities from boozing to surviving.

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勞倫斯•卜洛克（1938）

當代美國偵探小說大師，作品包括四個系列，馬修•史卡德系列是以紐約一名戒酒中的無牌私探史卡德為主。卜洛克的偵探小說曾獲多次偵探類文學獎，包括「愛倫坡獎」等獎。他在1994年獲得「愛倫坡獎終身大師獎」。