Everybody Dies (Matthew Scudder Series #14)

Mathew Scudder is finally leading a comfortable life. He's married, sober, and the state just gave him a private investigator's license. He's growing older and even getting respectable. But when he signs up to help his closest and most unlikely friend, larger-than-life Hell's Kitchen hoodlum Mick Ballou, he discovers he's living in a world where the past is a minefield, the present a war zone, and that he's not so respectable after all. The future's an open question and no man's survival can be taken for granted - even his own.