Private detective Matt Scudder has calculated that New York is a city that is fraught with at least eight million ways to say goodbye to life. An honest guy trying to quit drinking, a sympathetic friend and a smart detective - that’s him, Matt Scudder, the hero of the brilliant series of novels by Lawrence Block. In the proposed novel, he undertakes to help his friend, a call girl who is trying to get out of her “business”. A simple request turns into the murder of a girl, and now Scudder will have to go through a long path, strewn with corpses, in search of a cruel killer. Lively, interesting characters (first of all, Scudder himself), a clever plot, a convex, almost tangible atmosphere of a large metropolis, excellent descriptions and dialogues, skillful staging of “cool” scenes, an unexpected outcome - all this guarantees a pleasant reading.