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SignWave : An Aftershock Novel by Andrew Vachss (2016, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-101101910321
ISBN-139781101910320
eBay Product ID (ePID)219403982
Product Key Features
Book TitleSignwave : an Aftershock Novel
Number of Pages272 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicThrillers / Crime, Mystery & Detective / Hard-Boiled, Thrillers / Suspense, Crime
Publication Year2016
GenreFiction
AuthorAndrew Vachss
Book SeriesAftershock Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.8 in
Item Weight9.9 Oz
Item Length8 in
Item Width5.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
Dewey Edition23
ReviewsPraise for Andrew Vachss and SignWave "Vachss seems bottomlessly knowledgeable about the depth and variety of human twistedness." -- The New York Times "Vachss's writing is like a dark rollercoaster ride of fear, love, and hate." -- The Times-Picayune "An extended meditation on what Dell aptly calls 'the zen of violence'. . . . Fans of the series will lose sleep." -- Kirkus Reviews "Entertaining. . . . Lots of assassin lessons and killing lore make turning the pages a learning experience in the dark arts as much as a riveting read." -- Publishers Weekly "[Vachss] writes a hypnotically violent prose made up of equal parts of broken concrete block and razor wire." -- Chicago Sun-Times "To read Andrews Vachss at his best is to take a ride on the dark side, where the plight of the oppressed and vulnerable . . . becomes the catalyst for revenge-fueled street justice." -- Los Angeles Times "Andrew Vachss is unique among modern writers; no one else comes close to the raw power and intellectual ambiguity that he manifests so elegantly, so coldly." -- The Clarion-Ledger "There is no other living American author with prose as razor-clean as Andrew Vachss, and there is no other writer willing to go so far into such dark extremes, either. When Vachss turns the juice on, the bad guys sizzle." -- The Austin Chronicle "Vachss is red-hot and as serious as a punctured lung." -- Playboy "There's no way to put a [Vachss book] down once you've begun. . . . The one-liners pierce like bullets." -- Detroit Free Press "Vachss explores the horrific intersection of victims and victimizers, evil and avengers. The setting has moved from urban to small-town, but the eternal conflict is as it ever was." -- Booklist "Razor-edged and compulsively readab≤ the pages fly by." -- Library Journal "Vachss impresses again with his new dark and compelling thriller." --Largehearted Boy.com "Many writers try to cover the same ground as Vachss. A handful are as good. None are better." -- People, Praise for the Aftershock Series "Vachss explores the horrific intersection of victims and victimizers, evil and avengers. The setting has moved from urban to small-town, but the eternal conflict is as it ever was." -- Booklist "Razor-edged and compulsively readab≤ the pages fly by." -- Library Journal "Vachss is the baddest noir stylist of them all." -- Kirkus Reviews "Vachss impresses again with his new dark and compelling thriller." --Largehearted Boy.com Acclaim for Andrew Vachss "Many writers try to cover the same ground as Vachss. A handful are as good. None are better." -- People "Vachss seems bottomlessly knowledgeable about the depth and variety of human twistedness." -- The New York Times "Vachss is red-hot and as serious as a punctured lung." -- Playboy "Vachss's style is personal, laconic, shaded, and, of course, creepy. If you like hard-boiled narrative, this is a read for you." -- Los Angeles Times Book Review
Series Volume Number3
Dewey Decimal813.54
SynopsisOnce a mercenary, later an assassin, and now living a different life, Dell has bone-marrow-deep loyalty and protective instincts that know no bounds when it comes to his wife, Dolly, a former battle-field nurse, and their close-knit group of Dolly's friends and Dell's allies. When Dolly receives a thinly veiled threat, Dell reverts to his old ways to untangle the background of a prominent local figure, George Byron Benton, whose actions have awakened Dell's obsessive need for security. This target combines the deadly patience of a gila monster and a complex agenda-including a public life that's all elaborate disguise. To penetrate Benton's dense facade, Dell methodically works his way through the only reliable source of news in the area-a blog called Undercurrents . If he manages to track Benton down, Dell will have to decide how far he is willing to go to recapture the sense of safety that Benton has stolen. With Andrew Vachss's trademark razor-sharp dialogue and inimitable prose style, SignWave -the third entry in the Aftershock series-is guaranteed to reverberate powerfully long after it has been read., Once a mercenary, later an assassin, and now struggling to maintain a peaceful life, Dell is marked by marrow-deep loyalty and no-limit protective instincts for his wife, Dolly, a former battlefield nurse. When Dolly enters the fray of a neighborhood dispute and receives a thinly veiled threat for her trouble, Dell instantly reverts to guerrilla tactics. His target is George Byron Benton, a prominent local figure who pushes an inscrutable agenda with the deadly patience of a Gila monster--and whose public life may all be an elaborate disguise. Dell is quickly down to cold objectives: decode Benton's end-game, calculate the tactics needed to recapture Dolly's stolen sense of security . . . and execute. With Andrew Vachss's trademark razor-sharp dialogue and inimitable prose style, SignWave --the final entry in the Aftershock trilogy--is guaranteed to reverberate powerfully long after it has been read.
LC Classification NumberPS3572.A33S54 2016
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