Orlando Sentinel
“EXCELLENT . . . Block has become to New York City what Raymond Chandler was to Los Angeles and John D. MacDonald was to South Florida.”
New York Daily News
“LAWRENCE BLOCK HAS DONE IT AGAIN. Warning: Everybody Dies is addictive.”
Victor Navasky
A NEW YORK TIMES AND PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
NOTABLE BOOK
“TENSE, GRIPPING . . . THE BLOODIEST—AND BEST YET—FROM LAWRENCE BLOCK . . . The grittiness of the narrative, its vivid and visceral intensity are remarkable . . . Everybody Dies should be well and widely received, because legions of Scudder fans will be dying to read it.”
Buffalo News
“THRILLING . . . A SLAM-BANG FINALE . . . Block has a rare talent for imagining talk small or substantial. Scudder’s resourcefulness in sleuthing out the men responsible for the carnage should satisfy any mystery fan. But it’s the quality of Block’s conversational passages that distinguish this excellent novel . . . Mick Ballou is one of fiction’s more charming sociopaths.”
Los Angeles Times
“A BROODING, VIOLENT, MESMERIZING NOVEL, BLOCK’S BEST IN YEARS . . . as emotionally resonant as it is viscerally exciting.”
Publishers Weekly
“They don’t get much darker than Everybody Dies, but for lovers of noir fiction that’s a cause for celebration.”
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
“HIS BEST YET . . . Block is a superb craftsman, one of those increasingly rare writers who knows how to make every word, every nuance, meaningful . . . The dialogue is realistic, the threats to individuals’ lives are scary, and one wonders more than once if justice—the kind imparted on the streets and in the shadowy alleys—will prevail . . . Block keeps us all on the edge of our chairs or, worse, perhaps scared to even try to sit down.”
Muncie Star Press
“EXCELLENT . . . FOR THOSE WHO YEARN TO WALK THOSE MEAN STREETS, NO ONE PROVIDES A MORE SATISFACTORY STROLL THAN LAWRENCE BLOCK.”
San Diego Union-Tribune
“ACTION-PACKED AND THOUGHTFUL, with honestly drawn characters who speak the language of the street and the language of the law.”
Dallas Morning News
“Big questions get asked—about God, life, meaning, choices. You care about the people asking them, and you take the answers seriously.”
Akron Beacon-Journal
“SCUDDER FANS CAN BE GRATEFUL . . . a mayhem-filled return to the danger and action that helped make the character so popular when he first appeared . . . a bloody trek through the dark, violent streets of New York.”
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
“CONSISTENTLY TASTY AND SURPRISING . . . full of smart, ringing dialogue and multiple textures . . .If you prefer true grit, New York cop-turned-private eye Matt Scudder’s your man.”
Seattle Times
“I dare those who consider themselves to be experienced readers to read the first 10 pages of Everybody Dies, then toss it aside. It’s not possible . . . Everybody dies at some point. Don’t let it happen to you before you discover the writing of Lawrence Block.”
Rocky Mountain News
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