Burke is one of the most cold-blooded yet strangely honorable heroes in the history of crime fiction, an outlaw who makes his living preying on the most vicious of New York City's bottom-feeders, those who thrive on the suffering of c...
Vachss has reinvented detective fiction and, in the person of Burke, his haunted, hell-ridden P.I., has given listeners a new kind of hero.Investigating an epidemic of apparent suicides among the teenagers of a wealthy suburb, Burke d...
Terminal: A Burke Novel (Burke)
Andrew VachssWhen the former shot-caller of the country's most feared white supremacist prison gang makes contact, he comes with references and the possibility of a huge score. Terminally ill, the ex-con needs a small fortune to gamble on the...
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 s...
Ho is an ancient sensei who began training as a child, until war changed him forever. When his dismissive arrogance causes the death of a student he called "daughter," Ho renounces not only his possessions but also his role ...
For years Burke has harbored an outlaw's hard love for Wolfe, the beautiful, driven former sex-crimes prosecutor who was fired for refusing to "go along to get along." So when Wolfe is arrested for the attempted murder of Jo...
Shockwave: An Aftershock Novel
Andrew VachssDell, a former mercenary, and his wife, Dolly, a former battlefield nurse, believe they have finally found a place of peace in a deceptively idyllic small town on the Oregon coast. But early one morning, just before daybreak, a body ...