Dance of the Slaughterhouse

Author: Block
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Publish Date: 2006-09-01
Features: Since we must die in the end, why not choose to kill each other. The protagonist of the hard-boiled detective novels in the West today has many admirers and elite collectors. Lawrence Block is a master of detective novels in the detective novel world, and the Matthew Scudder series is the best detective novel of this century. – PrivateEyes
While reading Matthew Scudder, I felt like I had to finish it all at once, just like when I was a child reading martial arts novels. – Hou Xiaoxian
All of Lawrence Block’s works are very interesting. Give me another one, Lawrence Block. – Associated Press
Good! – Stephen King
“At this moment, I suddenly became clear. It seemed that at this moment, I could see through everything. My thoughts surpassed my mind, swirling and entangling in those things. In an instant, I felt it was close enough to almost touch it, then… snap, it was gone. Do you understand what I mean?”
To investigate a case, Matthew went to the boxing gym. In the audience, he noticed a man with a child. The man’s casual gesture of stroking the boy’s hair suddenly opened Matthew’s memory: he had seen on a video tape the entire process of a man and a woman cruelly torturing a boy. As Matthew’s investigation continued, the two cases unexpectedly intersected.
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Author Lawrence Block is hailed as the "melancholy soul wandering in New York," and many elites are captivated by him. Hou Xiaoxian recommended his books to Tony Leung Chiu-wai, who hoped to play a role in his works. Zhu Tianxin said of Block, "He is a master of genre fiction, and also an unyielding boundary-crosser."
For forty years, Block has accompanied the down-and-out, stubborn Matthew Scudder, the gentleman thief Bernie Rodenbark, the sleepless spy Ivan Tarn, and the cold-blooded killer Keller, witnessing the most extreme prosperity and evil in New York. Even if the murderer is exposed on the first page, it doesn’t affect his works. Some say Block’s talent is to first see horror in the bloodshed, then transform it into suspense, and then seek understanding within the suspense—understanding why killers kill and why victims die.