Matt Scudder is finally leading a comfortable life. The crime rate's
down and the stock market's up. Gentrification's prettying-up the old
neighborhood. The New York streets don't look so mean anymore.
Then all hell breaks loose.
Scudder quickly discovers the spruced-up sidewalks are as mean as ever,
dark and gritty and stained with blood. He's living in a world where the
past is a minefield, the present is a war zone, and the future's an open
question. It's a world where nothing is certain and nobody's safe, a
random universe where no one's survival can be taken for granted. Not
even his own.
A world where everybody dies.