When there is no longer any reliable source of "news," there is nothing to trust . . . and "The Terror" descends. For decades, The Rulers have been at work, using prisoner and slave labor to construct Underground, believing that all those who flee there will trade their freedom for security. Now, "t[...]
A VINTAGE CRIME/BLACK LIZARD ORIGINAL
A hit man stalks his mark at a race track. A sociopath crosses every moral boundary to become a published author. An ex-mercenary obsessively defends his "perimeter" from a dangerous interloper. A man for hire grudgingly accepts help from a teenage girl to t[...]
Before Burke, before Cross, Andrew Vachss created Wesley: a ruthless assassin who would stop at nothing to take out his targets. "A BombBuilt in Hell" is Wesley's story, in print for the very first time.
While doing extended time for killing a fellow prisoner, Wesley meets Carmine Trentoni in a [...]
Chicago--the reigning #1 city in homicides--has no shortage of deadly gangs. And all those gangs know well that the Cross crew occupies a cinderblock bunker called Red 71 . . . the last place you want to go, unless you're willing to risk it being the last place you go. The crew is notorious for its [...]
Dell, 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 washes up on the town's pristine beach. The dead man's shaven s[...]
The third novel in the Aftershock series.
Undercurrents rise to the surface as Dell employs his mercenary soldier skills to follow the trail of a man who unwisely threatened his beloved wife, Dolly. This is a man with the deadly patience of a gila monster, and a complex agenda: possibly the firs[...]
In Burke, Andrew Vachss gave readers of crime fiction a hero they could believe in, an avenger whose sense of justice was forged behind bars and tempered on New York s meanest streets. In this blistering thriller, Burke is drawn into his ugliest case yet, one that involves an underground network of [...]
Geof Darrow is an award winning comics writer and artist, whose work includes titles such as "Shaolin Cowboy", "Hard Boiled", and "Big Guy and Rusty". Darrow also created "City of Fire", a stunning portfolio of dynamic prints, with legendary artist Jean Giraud (Moebius). His latest work, "The Shaoli[...]
Andrew Vachss, the master of hard-boiled fiction, returns with a deeply revealing new novel about an assassin whose love forced him to kill his own conscience.
Esau Till's race is almost run. After pleading guilty to a series of homicides, he sits on death row, awaiting lethal injection. And wri[...]
In this blistering conclusion to the nationally bestselling series, Burke is forced into a journey that will change the lives of the urban survivalist and his outlaw family forever.The only person Burke has ever called father, known throughout the underground as "The Prof," is in a coma, barely clin[...]
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's a pure professional, "time tested" and packing 255 pounds of muscle. Accused of a rape he couldn't have done because he was robbing a jewelry store at t[...]
The idyllic facade of a small coastal tourist magnet hides its secrets well. But when the shining star pitcher of the girls' softball team guns down the most popular boy in school, the shockwaves reverberate far beyond the school's walls. In the wake of the killing, two of the town's newer residents[...]
From the author of the best-selling Burke novels, the sequel to "Aftershock: " the second installment of his thrilling new series in which Dell, an ex-mercenary, and Dolly, a former battlefield nurse, lead us deep into the ugly underbelly of a seemingly idyllic Pacific Northwest coastal town.
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A deeply revealing novel from the master of the hardboiled, Andrew Vachss, about an assassin whose love forced him to kill his own conscience.
Execution looms, but no prison can hold Esau Till's mind. Or his love. He sits on death row, writing his life story--his last chance to protect his broth[...]
TO UNIT 3 Chicago
FROM DIRECTOR
IMPORTANCE: Critical
SUBJECT Specimen Retrieval
TARGET Shadowy hunter-killer teams, ID'ed via signature kills worldwide. Identifiable only by skull-spine removal from victims. No witnesses, no forensics, no particular race targeted. On rare occasions, sc[...]
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 basher[...]
"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 [...]
It's not an unusual job for Burke ex-con, career criminal, and ultimate urban man-for-hire to act as middleman in an exchange of cash for a kidnapped child. But this time the only things exchanged are bullets. Burke loses his beloved partner, and lies in a hospital bed close to [...]
Following a failed assassination attempt, Burke flees New York City to eke out a difficult existence as an enforcer for hire in the Pacific Northwest while he waits for it to become safe to return home, until he takes a job tracking down a runaway teenager, which brings him face to face with a fanat[...]
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[...]