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Flood (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)

by Andrew H. Vachss, Andrews Vachss

Burke's newest client is a woman named Flood, who has the face of an angel, the body of a high-priced stripper, and the skills of a professional executioner. She wants Burke to find a monster for her - so she can kill him with her bare hands. In this thriller, Andrew Vachss's renegade private eye teams up with a lethally gifted avenger to follow a child's murderer through the catacombs of New York, where every... (more)

Strega: A Burke Novel (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)

Strega: A Burke Novel (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)

by Andrew Vachss

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. It is a place that Burke can visit only at the risk of his sanity and his life. But between the power of Strega and his... (more)

Blue Belle (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)

by Andrew Vachss

Burke is back in his most tightly wound, electrifying thriller to date. In Blue Belle, a savage gang is hunting and killing teenage prostitute. A murderous martial arts expert is trying to set up a deal with Burke's friend Max. And complicating it all is Belle, a voluptuous exotic dancer who has worked her way into Burke's heart.

Hard Candy (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)

by Andrew Vachss

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... (more)

Dead and Gone: A Burke Novel

by Andrew Vachss

From the modern master of noir, Andrew Vachss, comes this heart-topping and bestselling new thriller that completely reinvents the Burke series. 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, and deep into his... (more)

Sacrifice (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)

by Andrew Vachss

What--or who--could turn a gifted little boy into a murderous thing that calls itself "Satan's Child"? In search of an answer, Burke travels from a festering welfare hotel to a neat frame house where a voodoo priestess presides over a congregation of assassins.

Blossom (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)

by Andrew Vachss

In this savagely convincing novel, Burke finds himself in a fading Indiana mill town, trying to clear a boy charged with a series of sexually motivated shootings. He's intent on finding the real sniper--and his unlikely ally is a beautiful woman named Blossom, who has her own reasons for finding the murderer, as well as her own idea of vengeance.

False Allegations: A Burke Novel (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)

False Allegations: A Burke Novel (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)

by Andrew Vachss, Andrew . Vachss

"In the first rank of American crime writers. . . . Next to Vachss, Chandler, Cain and Hammett look like choirboys." --Cleveland Plain Dealer Burke--ex-con, mercenary, sometime killer--makes his living preying on New York's most vicious predators and avenging their innocent victims. But in Andrew Vachss's mercilessly suspenseful new novel, Burke finds himself working the other side of the street, where guilt... (more)

Shella (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)

by Andrew Vachss

A bitter and cynical killer for hire, just out of jail after serving time for manslaughter, journeys back into a world of deviance, hatred, and ruthless amorality as he searches for Shella, a strip-dancer who had been the only one to touch his heart. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.

Terminal: A Burke Novel

by Andrew Vachss

“You know why we hate you? Not because you don’t know what we know, but because, if you did, you wouldn’t give a damn. So I’m sitting here, waiting to commit extortion, and planning a lot worse. I’m what you’d call a criminal. That’s why I’ll never be you. And I’m proud of it.” --from Terminal When the former shot-caller of the country’s most feared white supremacist prison gang contacts Burke, he comes with... (more)

Safe House: A Burke Novel (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)

Safe House: A Burke Novel (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)

by Andrew H. Vachss

A beautiful outlaw hires Burke to shield one of her charges from a vengeful ex with fetishes for Nazism and torture. But the stalker has a protector who can shut down her operation for good.

Down in the Zero (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)

Down in the Zero (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)

by Andrew Vachss, Andrew H. Vachss

Vachss has reinvented detective fiction and, in the person of Burke, his haunted, hell-ridden P.I., has given readers a new kind of hero. Investigating an epidemic of apparent suicides among the teenagers of a wealthy suburb, Burke discovers a sinister connection between the anguish of the young and the activities of an elite sadomasochistic underground.

Pain Management: A Burke Novel (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)

Pain Management: A Burke Novel (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)

by Andrew Vachss

Burke is back, but still lurking in the shadows, unable to return home. He is prowling the unfamiliar streets of Portland, Oregon, in search of a runaway teen. By all accounts, Rosebud Carlin is a happy, well-adjusted girl. She doesn’t fit the profile of the runaway kids Burke knows so wellÉand once was. But there’s something about her fatherÉ Burke knows the street script, but the actors are all strangers.... (more)

Footsteps of the Hawk (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)

Footsteps of the Hawk (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)

by Andrew Vachss

A pulse-quickening new crime novel featuring Burke--scam artist, private investigator, sometime killer--whose sole passion is defending children who fall victim to New York City's darker appetites, Footsteps of the Hawk finds Burke the pawn in a conspiracy involving two rogue cops and a grisly string of sex crimes. Reading tour.

Down Here: A Burke Novel (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)

Down Here: A Burke Novel (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)

by Andrew Vachss

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 John Anson Wychek, a vicious rapist she once prosecuted, Burke deals himself in. That means putting together a distrustful alliance between his underground "family of choice," Wolfe's private... (more)

Only Child (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)

by Andrew Vachss

It’s been years since Burke has been home, years since he’s seen his “family” and worked in the underbelly of New York City. Although his appearance has changed, his reputation grown dusty and his wallet thin, his skills and his crew remain razor sharp. So when he is contacted by a mob boss to investigate the murder of his illegitimate daughter, Vonni, Burke takes the job and begins searching for an unspeakably... (more)

Choice of Evil: A Burke Novel (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)

Choice of Evil: A Burke Novel (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)

by Andrew Vachss

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 Erectus and who seems determined to wipe gay bashers from the face of the earth. As the killer's body count rises, most citizens are horrified, but a few see him as a... (more)

Cadillac Jukebox (Dave Robicheaux Mysteries)

Cadillac Jukebox (Dave Robicheaux Mysteries)

by James Lee Burke

When a man imprisoned for killing a black civil rights leader protests his innocence before Dave Robicheaux, the Louisiana detective finds himself pressured by the state's new governor and his seductive wife to stay away from the case. Reprint."

Crusader's Cross: A Dave Robicheaux Novel (Dave Robicheaux Mysteries (Paperback))

Crusader's Cross: A Dave Robicheaux Novel (Dave Robicheaux Mysteries (Paperback))

by James Lee Burke

For detective Dave Robicheaux, memories -- including those of a strange and violent summer from his youth -- are best left alone. But a dying man's confession forces Robicheaux to resurrect a decades-old mystery with a missing woman at its heart. Her name may or may not have been Ida Durbin, and Robicheaux's half brother, Jimmie, paid a brutal price for entering her world. Now the truth will plunge Robicheaux into... (more)

Black Cherry Blues

by James Lee Burke

Ex-cop Dave Robicheaux: His wife had been murdered ... Now they're after his little girl... From the Louisiana bayou to Montana's tribal lands,he's running front the bottle, a homicide rap, aprofessional killer ... and the demons of his past.

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