A Walk Among the Tombstones

Matthew Scudder, a retired New York cop and former alcoholic has no intention of taking a back seat. After being dismissed from his corps following a tragic end to a shootout, Scudder now takes on cases as an unlicensed private detective, a position that often leads him to the place he knows best: The Big Apple’s seedy underworld. Although not particularly fastidious where the law is concerned, Scudder nevertheless hesitates when hired by a heroin smuggler to investigate the brutal murder of his wife. Scudder soon discovers the murder was not a one-off and also not the last. Together with the drug dealer, he sets off on a hunt that takes him to his moral limits and beyond. The role of Matthew Scudder, the hardened yet equally vulnerable hero from the series of novels by Lawrence Block, is tailor made for Liam Neeson.