In the dark days, in a sad and lonely place, ex-cop Matt Scudder is drinking his life away -- and doing "favors" for pay for his ginmill cronies. But when three such assignments flow together in dangerous and disturbing ways, he'll need to change his priorities from boozing to surviving.

In the dark days, in a sad and lonely place, ex-cop Matt Scudder is drinking his life away -- and doing "favors" for pay for his ginmill cronies. But when three such assignments flow together in dangerous and disturbing ways, he'll need to change his priorities from boozing to surviving.

作者：佶亞伍丁‧薩爾達爾（Ziauddin Sardar） 生於巴基斯坦，在大倫敦的哈克尼自治市長大。身兼作家、廣播人、文化評論家，是首屈一指的穆斯林知識分子。撰有五十多本伊斯蘭和當代文化的著作，被《遠見》雜誌（Prospect）列為英國百大智者之一。目前擔任美國東西大學後常態政策與未來研究中心主任、《穆斯林評論》季刊共同總編輯、《未來學》月刊顧問、倫敦穆斯林研究所董事長。 譯者：高平唐 報社資深編譯，電影公司影片和公關公司新聞摘要特約翻譯，譯有《緬甸：追求自由民主的反抗者》、《翁山蘇姬》、《希拉蕊回憶錄》、《歐尼斯光譜保健法讓你的基因變得更好》、《大熊市》、《巴菲特投資手冊》。

作者：佶亞伍丁‧薩爾達爾（Ziauddin Sardar） 生於巴基斯坦，在大倫敦的哈克尼自治市長大。身兼作家、廣播人、文化評論家，是首屈一指的穆斯林知識分子。撰有五十多本伊斯蘭和當代文化的著作，被《遠見》雜誌（Prospect）列為英國百大智者之一。目前擔任美國東西大學後常態政策與未來研究中心主任、《穆斯林評論》季刊共同總編輯、《未來學》月刊顧問、倫敦穆斯林研究所董事長。 譯者：高平唐 報社資深編譯，電影公司影片和公關公司新聞摘要特約翻譯，譯有《緬甸：追求自由民主的反抗者》、《翁山蘇姬》、《希拉蕊回憶錄》、《歐尼斯光譜保健法讓你的基因變得更好》、《大熊市》、《巴菲特投資手冊》。

"His fascinating and ambitious book provides a fully developed theory of violence as the `heart and secret soul' of the sacred. Girard's fertile, combative mind links myth to prophetic writing, primitive religions to classical tragedy."--Victor Brombert, 'Chronicle of Higher Education.'

Translation of La violence et le sacré.

Translation of La violence et le sacré.

"His fascinating and ambitious book provides a fully developed theory of violence as the `heart and secret soul' of the sacred. Girard's fertile, combative mind links myth to prophetic writing, primitive religions to classical tragedy."--Victor Brombert, 'Chronicle of Higher Education.'

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