It isn't called Hell's Kitchen for nothing - a gritty landscape of dark doorways and dirty alleys inhabited by crack addicts and the homeless.
For ex-cop Matt Scudder it's a city gone made, but it's a city he can't leave. He's been hired to find would-be actress Paula Hoeldtke, but as the trail of the missing girl gets colder, the city is heating up to boiling point . . .
