In the figure of Burke, Andrew Vachss has given contemporary crime fiction one of its most mesmerizing characters. An abused child raised in orphanages, foster homes, and prisons.
Burke is a career criminal and outlaw who steals and scams for a livin A battered child has vanished. The trail leads down, maybe as low as Burke has ever gone, into the sleazy subbasement of morality. He's not hunting for a man but for evil in the heart of man. It takes a secret meeting with an urban voodoo queen to se Andrew Vachss has reinvented detective fiction for an age in which guilty secrets are obsolete and murder isn't even worth a news headline.
And in the person of his haunted, hell-ridden private eye Burke, Vachss has given us a new kind of hero: a man A pulse-quickening new crime novel featuring Burke, ex-con, private investigator, and rumored hit man who harbors a pathological hatred for those who prey on children.
In Footsteps of the Hawk Burke himself is in danger of becoming a victim. Two rog But in this mercilessly suspenseful novel, Burke finds himself working the other side In Burke, Andrew Vachss gave readers of crime fiction a hero they could believe in, an avenger whose sense of justice was forged behind bars and tempered on New York's meanest streets.
In this blistering new thriller, Burke is drawn into his ugliest When his girlfriend, Crystal Beth is gunned down at a gay rights rally in Central Park, Burke, the underground man-for-hire and expert hunter of predators, vows vengeance. But someone beats him to the task: a shadowy killer who calls himself Homo Ere Urban Outlaw Burke barely survives an attack by a professional hit squad that kills his partner. With a new face, Burke goes into hiding.
And on the hunt. Dead and Gone takes him from the streets of New York City through a cross-country underground, The links beside each book title will take you to Amazon where you can read more about the book, or purchase it.
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Born Bad Amazon. The Questioner Amazon. Hard Looks: Adapted Stories Amazon. Cold Blood Amazon. Leave a Reply Click here to cancel reply. Please Note. Kate Carlisle has been writing the Fixer-Upper series for five years now. The latest book in the series, Absence of Mallets , is the 9th book in this cozy mystery series. If you're a cozy mystery fan, this is a great series to read.
Every 2 weeks we send out an e-mail with 12 Book Recommendations by genre. And three, these are controversial books. They rightly generate a lot of 'debate' about their subject, the sexual abuse of children although 'debate' might not be the right word given some of the extreme reactions to the Burke books. Character rules. What it does have is an entire universe of men and women and children who are complicated, three-dimensional, often fucked-up people.
Did I mention most of my friends are books? Learn how to listen and learn how to see: if you can generate the patience to do so, you will be rewarded a thousandfold, as a person and as a writer. I am also overcome with admiration for his work as an attorney and activist, devoted to the protection of children and the punishment of their abusers.
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