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  The Burke Series: Book 1

  Flood

  by Andrew H. 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)
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  Shella

  by Andrew H. 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.
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  The Burke Series: Book 6

  Sacrifice

  A Burke Novel

  by Andrew H. 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.
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  The Burke Series: Book 3

  Blue Belle

  by Andrew H. 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.
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  The Burke Series: Book 2

  Strega

  by Andrew H. 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)
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  The Burke Series: Book 7

  Down in the Zero

  by 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.
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  The Burke Series: Book 4

  Hard Candy

  by Andrew H. 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)
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  The Burke Series: Book 12

  Dead and Gone

  by Andrew H. 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)
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  The Burke Series: Book 10

  Safe House

  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.
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  The Burke Series: Book 5

  Blossom

  by Andrew H. 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.
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  The Burke Series: Book 13

  Pain Management

  by Andrew H. 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)
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  The Burke Series: Book 8

  Footsteps of the Hawk

  by Andrew H. 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.
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  The Burke Series: Book 17

  Terminal: A Burke Novel (Burke Novels)

  by Andrew H. 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)
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  Haiku

  by Andrew H. Vachss

  From the author of the acclaimed Burke series: a searing new novel that follows a band of homeless outcasts on a mission to recover what each has lost. 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 as master, roaming the streets of an... (more)
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  Down here: Strega, Blue Belle, Hard candy

  by Andrew H Vachss

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  The Weight: A Novel

  by Andrew H. Vachss

  Andrew Vachss returns with a mesmerizing novel about a hard-core thief who’s about to embark on a job that will alter his life forever.   Sugar is that rarest of commodities: an old-school professional thief, as tough and loyal as a pit bull, packing 255 pounds of muscle. When he’s picked out of a photo array in a vicious rape case, the cops find his apartment empty. A stakeout catches Sugar when he returns .... (more)
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  The Getaway Man

  by Andrew H. Vachss

  Eddie starts stealing cars long before he's old enough to get a license, driven by a force so compelling that he never questions, just obeys. After a series of false starts, interrupted by stays in juvenile institutions and a state prison term, Eddie's skills and loyalty attract the attention of J.C., a near-legendary hijacker. When he gets out, Eddie becomes the driver for J.C.'s ultra-professional crew. J.C.,... (more)
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  The Burke Series: Book 9

  False Allegations

  by Andrew H. 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)
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  Everybody Pays: Stories (Vintage Crime/Blck Lizard Orig)

  by Andrew Vachss

  "Vachss is a contemporary master."-- The Atlanta Journal-Constitution "Vachss' writing is like a dark roller coaster ride of fear, love and hate." -- The Times- Picayune A hit man defies the confines of a life sentence to avenge his sister's batterer. An immaculately dressed man hires a street gang to extract his daughter from a Central American prison, for reasons as mysterious as they are deadly. A... (more)
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  The Burke Series: Book 14

  Only Child

  by Andrew H. 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)