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EVERYBODY DIES - A MATT SCUDDER NOVEL. Hardcover - 1998

by BLOCK**, LAWRENCE:

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UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip (£16.99) to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,matt, monochrome photographic illustrated front panel of dw/dj,with b/w lettering; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present. Top edges with very,very light discolouration from some light dust-soiling and two parallel red felt-tip ink oblique strokes but overall still bright and clean, fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - virtually pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Publisher's bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered, original plain orange cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,1-278p [paginated] includes 35 chapters; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,a dedication,acknowledgements and epigrams. Ex-cop Matt Scudder is well and truly off the booze,but he still spends time with some of his old drinking buddies - including Mick Ballou.Mick is an Irish-American entrepreneur who operates more often than not on the wrong side of the law.Their friendship was always frowned upon by Scudder's superiors in the NYPD,but as Scudder knows there is honour among some thieves and within his own world Mick Ballou is an honourable man.Mick is also a worried man - two of his henchmen have met violent deaths during a raid on one of his bourbon warehouses.It looks very like someone is muscling in on his patch and he wants Scudder on the case.Matt isn't keen - working for your friends can be a tricky business.On his way home he is jumped,but does more damage than he takes. Somebody wants him off the job.When a friend is shot dead,while Scudder is in the men's room of the restaurant where they're eating dinner,he knows he was the real target.No matter that he is warned off by his ex-colleagues,and his wife,Elaine,this is one case Scudder is going to see out to the end. Please contact seller @ rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk ,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence, then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. **
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  • Title EVERYBODY DIES - A MATT SCUDDER NOVEL.
  • Author BLOCK**, LAWRENCE:
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
  • Condition Used - FINE.
  • Pages Book, 304 pp
  • Publisher LONDON.ORION BOOKS LTD.,1998., London
  • Date 1998
  • Bookseller's Inventory # rja749317
  • ISBN 9780752802138

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