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.