Lawrence Block: A Walk Among The Tombstones (UK 2020)

From the Publisher:
A brilliant, fast-paced thriller from 'a flat out entertainer' Daily Telegraph
Also a major film starring Liam Neeson, Dan Stevens and Ruth Wilson

Kenan Khoury's wife never returned from her shopping trip - at least, not alive. A ransom is demanded and paid; and his wife is duly returned to him - in small pieces in the boot of an abandoned car. But as Khoury's wealth has not come entirely honestly, he can't go to the police.

PI Matt Scudder is left to speculate on the motives of a very unusual kidnapper. And soon he is on the trail of a pair of ruthlessly sadistic psychopaths whose cruel games have only just begun...

Lawrence Block: A Walk Among The Tombstones. Orion Books, ISBN: 9781409198529 (July, 2020), 352 p., £8.99.

Lawrence Block: A Walk Among The Tombstones (UK 2014)

From the Publisher:
Kenan Khoury's wife went out grocery shopping and never came home. Alive, anyway. But because Kenan Khoury buys and sells drugs for a living he can't go to the police for help. He goes to Matthew Scudder instead -- an alcoholic ex-cop and unlicensed private eye who will stop at nothing to bring the brutal killers to justice before another innocent woman falls beneath their knives.

One of the most acclaimed detectives of all time, Lawrence Block’s Matthew Scudder returns to the big screen in his most shocking case ever, courtesy of international superstar Liam Neeson (TAKEN) and writer/director Scott Frank (GET SHORTY, OUT OF SIGHT).

Lawrence Block: A Walk Among The Tombstones. Titan Books / Hard Case Crime, ISBN: 9781783295623 (August, 2014), 412 p., £7.99.

Lawrence Block: A Walk Among The Tombstones (UK 2014)

From the Publisher:
A brilliant, fast-paced thriller. Adapted for major Hollywood release, starring Liam Neeson, Dan Stevens and Ruth Wilson.
Big-time dope dealer Kenan Khoury is a wealthy man. One fine spring morning his wife Francine is kidnapped and a ransom is demanded. Kenan pays and his wife is duly returned to him - in small pieces in the boot of an abandoned car.

PI Matt Scudder is left to speculate on the motives of a very unusual kidnapper. And soon he is on the trail of a pair of ruthlessly sadistic psychopaths whose cruel games have only just begun...

Soon to be a major Hollywood movie, starring Liam Neeson, Dan Stevens and Ruth Wilson.

Lawrence Block: A Walk Among The Tombstones. Orion Books, ISBN: 9781409147824 (August, 2014), 352 p., £7.99.

Lawrence Block: A Walk Among The Tombstones (USA 2002)

From the Publisher:
A ruthless, ingenious pair of entrepreneurial monsters is preying on the loved ones of those who live outside the law. Though he has no love for drug dealers and poison peddlers, ex-cop-turned-p.i. Matthew Scudder now must help them put two thrill-kill extortionists out of business -- before another drop of innocent blood is spilled.

Lawrence Block: A Walk Among The Tombstones. A Matthew Scudder Crime Novel. Avon Books, ISBN: 0380713756 (July, 2002), 384 p., $7.50.

Lawrence Block: A Walk Among The Tombstones (UK 2000)

From the Publisher:
A brilliant, fast-paced thriller. Adapted for major Hollywood release, starring Liam Neeson, Dan Stevens and Ruth Wilson.
Big-time dope dealer Kenan Khoury is a wealthy man. One fine spring morning his wife Francine is kidnapped and a ransom is demanded. Kenan pays and his wife is duly returned to him-in - small pieces in the boot of an abandoned car.

PI Matt Scudder is left to speculate on the motives of a very unusual kidnapper. And soon he is on the trail of a pair of ruthlessly sadistic psychopaths whose cruel games have only just begun...

Soon to be a major Hollywood movie, starring Liam Neeson, Dan Stevens and Ruth Wilson.

Lawrence Block: A Walk Among The Tombstones. A Matt Scudder Mystery. Orion Books, ISBN: 0752837486 (December, 2000), 339 p., £5.99.

Lawrence Block: A Walk Among The Tombstones (USA 1993)

From the Publisher:
Brooklyn heroin wholesaler Kenan Khoury responded quickly to the kidnappers' demands -- and paid $400,000 to get his beautiful young wife Francine back...in pieces.

A new breed of entrepreneurial monster has set up shop in the big city -- ruthless, sadistic, ingenious butchers who prey on the loved ones of those living outside the law.

Matthew Scudder has no love for the poison peddlers -- but drug dealers can't turn to the police for help. So it falls to the unlicensed ex-cop-turned-p.i. to put the thrill-kill extortionists out of business -- before another drop of innocent blood is spilled.

Lawrence Block: A Walk Among The Tombstones. Avon Books, ISBN: 0380713756 (November, 1993), 324 p., $4.99.

Lawrence Block: A Walk Among The Tombstones (USA 1992)

From the Publisher:
Lawrence Block is a master of nail-biting tension. of the kind of brooding, gritty plotting and characterization that keep readers and reviewers clamoring for more. Block's last mystery, A Donee at the Slaughterhouse, was recently honored with an Edgar Award for best novel and was hailed as "pitch-perfect" (Publishers Weekly) and "smoothly paced, deftly plotted, outstanding" (Chicago Tribune). And now Block returns with his hottest, freshest look at the Big Apple's dark side, A Walk Among the Tombstones.

"One million dollars cash, or we kill your wife.'" Highvolume dope dealers make an easy mark for kidnappers. After all, what are they going to do, call the cops? But Koran Khoury, heroin whole-saler to the five boroughs, haggled over the price and his wife came back in pieces. The only person he can trust to avenge her is Matt Scudder, ex-cop, sober alcoholic, who wields his own brand of guerrilla justice.

Scudder enlists his call-girl girlfriend Elaine, a streetwise punk from Times Square, and two thong-phreak computer geniuses to track the killers through the backstreets of Brooklyn. But the killers' depravity is matched only by their cleverness, and their next target is a little girl. In one of Block's most electrifying denouements, Scudder turns a cold trail into a red-hot explosion one rainy night in a Brooklyn cemetery.

Crackling with the city's energy, A Walk Among the Tombstones weds the breakneck suspense of A Ticket to the Boneyard to the relentless moral vision of A Dance at the Slaughterhouse. It is Lawrence Block's finest. most deeply satisfying noel, and a virtuoso performance.

Lawrence Block: A Walk Among The Tombstones. William Morrow, ISBN: 0688103502 (November, 1992), 318 p., $17.00.