When a gifted little boy transforms into a murderous creature who calls himself 'Satan's Child,' private investigator Burke travels from a festering welfare hotel to a neat frame house where a voodoo priestess leads a congregation of ...
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 mone...
Now a paid assassin, Burke is on a collision course with a man named Train, who runs a 'safehouse' for kids. But when Burke learns that his suspicions about Train are right (the safehouse keeps kids in harm's way), he becomes his own ...
Mask Market (Vintage Crime/Black Liza...
Andrew H. VachssThey meet in a no–name diner. A shadowy man hands Burke a CD dossier of someone he wants found. Minutes later, as Burke watches from an alley, his client is gunned down by a professional hunter–killer team. Burke slips away, unsur...
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 beau...
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 co...
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 di...
Burke becomes involved in a all-too-personal murder investigation after a deadly drive-by shooting at a gay rights rally leaves two people dead, including his girlfriend, but now someone is out to even the score as a killer known as '...
From the author of the acclaimed Burke private-eye series comes an ambitious and chilling novel that shows us not only what evil is, but where it comes from. For Shella is nothing less than a tour of evil's spawning ground, conducted ...
In his first appearance, Burke, the hard-boiled private eye and self-appointed avenger of abused children, is hired by a beautiful woman to follow a child's murderer through the alleyways and tenements of New York City. Reprint. 25,00...
Andrew Vachss' pre-Flood novel A Bomb Built in Hell was written in 1973. It was rejected by every publisher, one of whom described it as a "political horror story," others of whom berated it for its "lack of realism,&qu...
A VINTAGE CRIME/BLACK LIZARD ORIGINALA 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...
As darkness fell, Viktor was standing in front of his headquarters. Despite the weather, he was wearing a thick coat made of bear fur and a hat of the same material. "Bolshe!" he barked into a satellite phone. H...
Burke, the ex-convict, urban survivalist, and career criminal, is enlisted by a secretive, tight-knit organization to capture a stalker after women and children who seems to enjoy protection from the topmost level of the government. R...
False Allegations: A Burke Novel
Andrew H. VachssAn ex-con, urban survivalist, and mercenary, Burke is blackmailed by Kite, a professional debunker specializing in allegations of child sex abuse, to investigate what appears to be a deadly case that just might turn out to be the real...
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 Citys darker appetites, Footsteps of the Hawk finds Burke the...
Andrew Vachss, best known for his contemporary noir series featuring the ruthless Burke, retreats to an earlier era with this standalone novel, a tense historical thriller set in 1959. Wheelchair-bound crimelord Royal Beaumont maintai...
The Weight (Vintage Crime/Black Lizar...
Andrew H. VachssAndrew 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, tough and loyal as a pit bul...
From a writer whose novels have been acclaimed for their unflinching exploration of evil comes a brilliant collection of short stories—some never before published—that distill dread back down to its essence—and inject it straigh...
Terminal (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)...
Andrew H. VachssAfter years of carefully working the edges, a blood-commitment forces Burke's return to his former career: 'violence-for-money.' Claw, once the shot-caller of a white supremacist prison gang is free . . . and terminally ill--he despe...