Shelfari edited the contributors of Hard Candy (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard) Wednesday, September 30 2009.
Shelfari edited the contributors of Hard Candy (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard) Wednesday, September 16 2009.
Timothy Gray approved Norwegian Blue’s request to combine 11 books, including Hard Candy (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard), Monday, August 31 2009.
Norwegian Blue submitted a request to combine 11 books, including Hard Candy (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard), Sunday, August 30 2009.
Timothy Gray approved this request.Shelfari edited the description of Hard Candy (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard) Monday, August 10 2009.
In this mercilessly compelling thriller, Burke—the private eye, sting artist, and occasional hit man who metes out a cruelly ingenious vengeance on those who victimize children—is up against a soft-spoken messiah, who may be rescuing runaways or recruiting them for his own hideous purposes. But in doing so Burke becomes a target for an entire Mafia family, a whore with a heart of cyanide, and a contract killer as implacable as a heat-seeking missile. Written with Vachss's signature narrative overdrive—and his unnerving familiarity with the sub-basement of American crime— Hard Candy is vintage Burke.