Reviews"Andrew Vachss is a contemporary master." --"The" "Atlanta Journal"-"Constitution" "Many writers try to cover the same ground as Vachss. A handful are as good. None are better." --"People" "Vachss's reverence for storytelling is evident in the blunt beauty of his language." --"Chicago Sun"-"Times" "The books of Andrew Vachss are much more than great entertainment. They are a fierce crusade for all victims who can't fight back, especially the imperiled children to whom Vachss has devoted his considerable talent and his life." --Carl Hiaasen "Vachss is in the first rank of American crime writers." --"The Plain Dealer" "There's no way to put a ÝVachss book¨ down once you've begun . . . The plot hooks are engaging and the one-liners pierce like bullets." --"Detroit Free Press" "The best detective fiction being written . . . Add a stinging social commentary Ýand¨ a Celinesque journey into darkness, and we have an Andrew Vachss, one of our most important writers." --Martha Grimes "The New York Burke inhabits is not borrowed from anybody and shimmers on the page as gaudily and scarily as it does on the streets." --"New York "magazine
Series Volume NumberBk. 16
SynopsisEx-con-for-hire Burke meets with a shadowy man with a CD-dossier of someone he wants found. Minutes later, Burke's client is gunned down by a professional hunter-killer team. Later, when he examines the dossier, he discovers that the missing woman is a girl he'd rescued from a brutal pimp 20 years earlier.