In this city，you can get anything done for a price。If you want someone’s eyeglasses smashed，it'll cost you a subway token．You want his fingernails pulled out?His Iegs broken?You want him hurt SO bad he’S an invaIid his whole Iife?You want him…killed?Let me talk to someone.lt can be done．I he hanging death of a nondescript old marl jn a shabby Iittle apartment in a meager section of the 87th Precinct jS nothing much jn this city，especially to detectives Carella and Meyer．But everyone has a story，and this old man’S story stood to make some people a Iot of money。His story takes Carella,Meyer，Brown，and Weeks on a sea rch through Isola’S seedy strip clubs and to the b right lights 0f the theater district.There they discover an upcomIng muslcal with ties to a mysterious drug—and a killer wh0 stays unti}the last dance.

“The fiftieth novel of the 87th Precinct is one of the best．a melancholy,acerbic paean tO life-and death-in the fictional big city of Isola…．This is McBain in classic form，displaying thewritingwisdomgmned overmorethanfortyyearsof87ch Precinct novels tO deliver a cop story that’S as strong and soul．fulasthe urban heartofAmericahe celebrates SOwell．”--Publishers Weekly(starred review)

“The real achievement is how McBain has managed to sustainthe continuity of the series for nearly half a century withoutcompromising his formula or sacrificing its freshnes…Having stripped down and refined his language over the yearsto the point where it nOW conceals as much as it reveals,McBain forces US tO think twice about every character wemeet in THE LAST DANCE,even those we thought we alreadyknew．”--The New York Times Book Review