"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
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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Illustrated Soft Cover. Condición: As New. 2nd Edition. "Terminal", by Andrew Vachss. Copyright 2007 by the Author. This is the Second Edition, First Softcover Edition, published in 2007 by Vintage Books, imprint of Random House, New York. Coded First Printing. NOT Ex-Library. Like New condition in illustrated soft wraps. 8" x 5 1/4" x 242 thick, supple pages of remarkable fiction told as only Andrew Vachss can write it. Burke, anti-Hero of a dozen splendid novels, is out of prison, recruited by another former inmate who has a terminal illness - that man needs a half-million dollars, and he points to a group of child molesters and child rapists - rich now, rich when they were teens, who will pay millions to avoid prosecution for murder-gang rape. Burke and the crew pursue those men. No wear, No looseness, No mustiness, No smoke smell. No names. No other markings. No Bookplates, NOT Ex-library. NOT Remainder-marked. A remarkable find. Nº de ref. del artículo: 015585
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