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Description edit
Andrew Vachss's implacable private eye has a new client, Strega. She wants Burke to find an obscene photograph—and that search will take him into the ocean that flows just beneath the city, an ocean whose currents are flesh and money, the anguish of children and the pleasure of twisted adults.... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Mama Wong: Person who holds Burke's family of choice together
- Pansy: 140 pound Neopolitan Mastiff.
- Julio: criminal
- Gina: A woman being targeted by someone unpleasant.
- Mia: Gina's Daughter
- Burke: Private eye
- Max: Max the Silent. Burke's brother.
- Mark Monroe: Deviant
- Cheech: A stupid criminal
- Mole: Burke's friend.
- Immaculata: Max's woman, counselor of abused children.
- Prophet: Burke's friend.
- Wesley: Grew up with Burke.
- Eva Wolfe: Assistant District Attorney. No nonsense.
- Michelle: Transvestite, Burke's friend.
- Anna Marie: Gina's Friend. Scotty's mother
- Scotty: Abused child of Anna Marie.
- Bobby: ex-con. Runs a chop shop. Member of a white supremacy group.
- Cannonball: Bobby's partner at the chopshop
- Terry: A boy in the sex trade business
- McGowan: Detective working in the sex crimes division
- Lily: Supervisor at SAFE
- Pablo Cintrone: Harvard educated doctor.
- Bonnie Browne: A.K.A Bonnie Young.
- George Browne: Pederast
Organizations edit
- Un Gente Libre: A Free People. Select assassination group.
- The Real Brotherhood: A white supremacist group
First Sentence edit
It stated with a kid.
Series & Lists edit
This is book 2 of 18 in The Burke Series. (standard series)
Preceded by Flood, and followed by Blue Belle.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Andrew H. Vachss (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: German
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Country: Add the country of publication.
Publication Date: 1987
ISBN: 3548239528
Page Count: 351
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Country: Add the country of publication.
Publication Date: 1987
ISBN: 3548239528
Page Count: 351
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 813.54
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