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After 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 desperately needs a pile of cash to bet on a long-shot cure. He tells Burke about a punk who once purchased protection from him, a man who claims to know the truth behind a "cold case, " the unsolved rape-murder of a thirteen-year-old girl. The killers are all weathly men today, ideal blackmail marks. But wealth is power, and the informant needs Claw's protection again. Burke decides to roll the dice. A win would give Burke the two things he lives for: Money and Revenge. A loss would turn "terminal" from a diagnosis into a certainly, and not just for Claw.

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PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group

ISBN-100307387054

ISBN-139780307387059

eBay Product ID (ePID)150561907

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Publication Year2008

TopicMystery & Detective / Hard-Boiled, Thrillers / Espionage, Action & Adventure, Mystery & Detective / Private Investigators

Book TitleTerminal

LanguageEnglish

GenreFiction

AuthorAndrew Vachss

Book SeriesBurke Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height0.5in

Item Length8in

Item Weight6.5 Oz

Item Width5.1in

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Intended AudienceTrade

Reviews"Illuminates both the darkest excesses of criminality and, in counterpoint, the slack-jawed solipsism of the law-abiding." -Time Out Chicago "Vachss's prose is as taut and streetwise as ever, drawing his readers again into an evil underworld that is at once impossible to look away from and horrible to behold." -Associated Press "Burke is the hardest, most twisted man in crime and thriller fiction." -Contra Costa Times "Transcends the crime novel even further. . . . Like a lecture from the smartest raconteur you never want to meet." -The Seattle Times, "Illuminates both the darkest excesses of criminality and, in counterpoint, the slack-jawed solipsism of the law-abiding." Time Out Chicago "Vachss's prose is as taut and streetwise as ever, drawing his readers again into an evil underworld that is at once impossible to look away from and horrible to behold." Associated Press "Burke is the hardest, most twisted man in crime and thriller fiction." Contra Costa Times "Transcends the crime novel even further. . . . Like a lecture from the smartest raconteur you never want to meet." The Seattle Times, "Andrew Vachss is a great writer, not just because he writes fine novels with a sharp, original, and gripping prose style but also for the undisputed fact that he is a true warrior for the protection of children. His books never graphically display abuse, never wallow in it, but they always force us to look at the results of that abuse, how it changes, demoralizes, and destroys the innocent. "Long may this man write. Long may he protect children. He is one of a few who can lay legitimate claim to having changed laws and ways of thinking about child abuse, a real hero who has shone a harsh light on the cockroaches who scuttle about in the dark. His 'fiction' is more than kick-ass entertainment; it has, literally, changed the world for the better." --Joe R. Lansdale, author ofSunset and Sawdust From the Hardcover edition.

Series Volume Number17

Number of Pages256 Pages