Out on the Cutting Edge
A Matthew Scudder Crime Novel

This is a city that seduces dreamersthen eats their dreams. Matthew Scudder understands the futility of his search for a longtime missing Midwestern innocent who wanted to be an actress in the vast meat-grinder called New York City. But her frantic father heard that Scudder is the best, and now the ex-cop turned private investigator is scouring the hell called Hells Kitchen looking for anything that might resemble a lead. And in this neighborhood of the lost, hes finding loveand deathin the worst possible places.