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Another Life
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: September 15, 2009
Price: $15.00
In this blistering conclusion to the nationally bestselling series, Burke is forced into a journey that will change the lives of the urban survivalist and his outlaw family forever.
The only person Burke has ever called father, known throughout the underground as “The Prof,” is in a coma, barely clinging to life... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: September 15, 2009
Price: $15.00
In this blistering conclusion to the nationally bestselling series, Burke is forced into a journey that will change the lives of the urban survivalist and his outlaw family forever.
The only person Burke has ever called father, known throughout the underground as “The Prof,” is in a coma, barely clinging to life... Read more >
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Haiku
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
On Sale: November 3, 2009
Price: $24.95
From the author of the acclaimed Burke series: a searing new novel that follows a band of homeless outcasts on a journey to recover what each has lost.
Ho was a revered sensei, but when his dismissive arrogance caused the death of a beloved student, he renounced not only his possessions... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
On Sale: November 3, 2009
Price: $24.95
From the author of the acclaimed Burke series: a searing new novel that follows a band of homeless outcasts on a journey to recover what each has lost.
Ho was a revered sensei, but when his dismissive arrogance caused the death of a beloved student, he renounced not only his possessions... Read more >
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Strega
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: January 30, 1996
Price: $13.95
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 money, the anguish of children and the pleasure of twisted adults. It... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: January 30, 1996
Price: $13.95
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 money, the anguish of children and the pleasure of twisted adults. It... Read more >
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Also available as an
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Hard Candy
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: July 4, 1995
Price: $12.95
In this mercilessly compelling thriller, Burke—the private eye, sting artist, and occasional hit man who metes out a cruelly ingenious vengeance on those who victimize children—is up against a soft-spoken messiah, who may be rescuing runaways or recruiting them for his own hideous purposes. But in doing so Burke becomes a... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: July 4, 1995
Price: $12.95
In this mercilessly compelling thriller, Burke—the private eye, sting artist, and occasional hit man who metes out a cruelly ingenious vengeance on those who victimize children—is up against a soft-spoken messiah, who may be rescuing runaways or recruiting them for his own hideous purposes. But in doing so Burke becomes a... Read more >
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Also available as an
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Terminal
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: December 2, 2008
Price: $13.95
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... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: December 2, 2008
Price: $13.95
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... Read more >
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Mask Market
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: August 19, 2008
Price: $13.95
They 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, unsure if he’s been spotted. Later, when he examines the dossier... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: August 19, 2008
Price: $13.95
They 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, unsure if he’s been spotted. Later, when he examines the dossier... Read more >
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eBook.
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Choice of Evil
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: May 16, 2000
Price: $13.95
When his girlfriend, Crystal Beth, is gunned down at a gay rights rally in Central Park, Burke, the underground man-for-hire and expert hunter of predators, vows vengeance. But someone beats him to the task: a shadowy killer who calls himself Homo Erectus and who seems determined to wipe gay bashers from the... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: May 16, 2000
Price: $13.95
When his girlfriend, Crystal Beth, is gunned down at a gay rights rally in Central Park, Burke, the underground man-for-hire and expert hunter of predators, vows vengeance. But someone beats him to the task: a shadowy killer who calls himself Homo Erectus and who seems determined to wipe gay bashers from the... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Down Here
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: April 12, 2005
Price: $13.00
For years Burke has harbored an outlaw's hard love for Wolfe, the beautiful, driven former sex-crimes prosecutor who was fired for refusing to "go along to get along." So when Wolfe is arrested for the attempted murder of John Anson Wychek, a vicious rapist she once prosecuted, Burke deals himself in... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: April 12, 2005
Price: $13.00
For years Burke has harbored an outlaw's hard love for Wolfe, the beautiful, driven former sex-crimes prosecutor who was fired for refusing to "go along to get along." So when Wolfe is arrested for the attempted murder of John Anson Wychek, a vicious rapist she once prosecuted, Burke deals himself in... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Another Life
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: December 30, 2008
Price: $24.95
From the author of the acclaimed Burke series: a searing new novel that follows a band of homeless outcasts on a journey to recover what each has lost.
Ho was a revered sensei, but when his dismissive arrogance caused the death of a beloved student, he renounced not only his possessions but... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: December 30, 2008
Price: $24.95
From the author of the acclaimed Burke series: a searing new novel that follows a band of homeless outcasts on a journey to recover what each has lost.
Ho was a revered sensei, but when his dismissive arrogance caused the death of a beloved student, he renounced not only his possessions but... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
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Down in the Zero
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: July 4, 1995
Price: $15.00
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 discovers a sinister connection between the anguish of the young and the activities of... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: July 4, 1995
Price: $15.00
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 discovers a sinister connection between the anguish of the young and the activities of... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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False Allegations
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: October 28, 1997
Price: $15.00
"In the first rank of American crime writers. . . . Next to Vachss, Chandler, Cain and Hammett look like choirboys."
--Cleveland Plain Dealer
Burke--ex-con, mercenary, sometime killer--makes his living preying on New York's most vicious predators and avenging their innocent victims. But in Andrew Vachss's mercilessly suspenseful new novel, Burke finds... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: October 28, 1997
Price: $15.00
"In the first rank of American crime writers. . . . Next to Vachss, Chandler, Cain and Hammett look like choirboys."
--Cleveland Plain Dealer
Burke--ex-con, mercenary, sometime killer--makes his living preying on New York's most vicious predators and avenging their innocent victims. But in Andrew Vachss's mercilessly suspenseful new novel, Burke finds... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Dead and Gone
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: September 11, 2001
Price: $13.95
From the modern master of noir, Andrew Vachss, comes this heart-topping and bestselling new thriller that completely reinvents the Burke series.
Urban Outlaw Burke barely survives an attack by a professional hit squad that kills his partner. With a new face, Burke goes into hiding. And on the hunt. Dead... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: September 11, 2001
Price: $13.95
From the modern master of noir, Andrew Vachss, comes this heart-topping and bestselling new thriller that completely reinvents the Burke series.
Urban Outlaw Burke barely survives an attack by a professional hit squad that kills his partner. With a new face, Burke goes into hiding. And on the hunt. Dead... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Safe House
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: March 30, 1999
Price: $14.00
The new novel from Andrew Vachss puts Burke 'hard-core career criminal and man-for-hire' up against a new breed of predator: stalkers. Some obsessed, some deranged, all dangerous.
Burke's old prison pal Hercules, hired by a shadowy network that runs a safehouse for stalking victims, botched the job, and one of the stalkers... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: March 30, 1999
Price: $14.00
The new novel from Andrew Vachss puts Burke 'hard-core career criminal and man-for-hire' up against a new breed of predator: stalkers. Some obsessed, some deranged, all dangerous.
Burke's old prison pal Hercules, hired by a shadowy network that runs a safehouse for stalking victims, botched the job, and one of the stalkers... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Only Child
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: October 14, 2003
Price: $13.95
It’s been years since Burke has been home, years since he’s seen his “family” and worked in the underbelly of New York City. Although his appearance has changed, his reputation grown dusty and his wallet thin, his skills and his crew remain razor sharp. So when he is contacted by a... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: October 14, 2003
Price: $13.95
It’s been years since Burke has been home, years since he’s seen his “family” and worked in the underbelly of New York City. Although his appearance has changed, his reputation grown dusty and his wallet thin, his skills and his crew remain razor sharp. So when he is contacted by a... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Blossom
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: October 29, 1996
Price: $13.00
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 beautiful woman named Blossom, who has her own reasons for finding the... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: October 29, 1996
Price: $13.00
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 beautiful woman named Blossom, who has her own reasons for finding the... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Footsteps of the Hawk
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: October 29, 1996
Price: $12.95
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 City's darker appetites, Footsteps of the Hawk finds Burke the pawn in a conspiracy involving two rogue cops and a grisly string of sex crimes. Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: October 29, 1996
Price: $12.95
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 City's darker appetites, Footsteps of the Hawk finds Burke the pawn in a conspiracy involving two rogue cops and a grisly string of sex crimes. Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Shella
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: August 23, 1994
Price: $13.00
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 by one of its natural predators.
He is called "Ghost" because... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: August 23, 1994
Price: $13.00
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 by one of its natural predators.
He is called "Ghost" because... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Terminal
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: September 25, 2007
Price: $24.95
“You know why we hate you? Not because you don’t know what we know, but because, if you did, you wouldn’t give a damn.
So I’m sitting here, waiting to commit extortion, and planning a lot worse. I’m what you’d call a criminal. That’s why I’ll never be you. And I’m proud... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: September 25, 2007
Price: $24.95
“You know why we hate you? Not because you don’t know what we know, but because, if you did, you wouldn’t give a damn.
So I’m sitting here, waiting to commit extortion, and planning a lot worse. I’m what you’d call a criminal. That’s why I’ll never be you. And I’m proud... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
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Sacrifice
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: January 30, 1996
Price: $12.00
What--or who--could turn a gifted little boy into a murderous thing that calls itself "Satan's Child"? In search of an answer, Burke travels from a festering welfare hotel to a neat frame house where a voodoo priestess presides over a congregation of assassins. Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: January 30, 1996
Price: $12.00
What--or who--could turn a gifted little boy into a murderous thing that calls itself "Satan's Child"? In search of an answer, Burke travels from a festering welfare hotel to a neat frame house where a voodoo priestess presides over a congregation of assassins. Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Pain Management
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: October 8, 2002
Price: $13.00
Burke is back, but still lurking in the shadows, unable to return home. He is prowling the unfamiliar streets of Portland, Oregon, in search of a runaway teen. By all accounts, Rosebud Carlin is a happy, well-adjusted girl. She doesn’t fit the profile of the runaway kids Burke knows so wellÉand... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: October 8, 2002
Price: $13.00
Burke is back, but still lurking in the shadows, unable to return home. He is prowling the unfamiliar streets of Portland, Oregon, in search of a runaway teen. By all accounts, Rosebud Carlin is a happy, well-adjusted girl. She doesn’t fit the profile of the runaway kids Burke knows so wellÉand... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Everybody Pays
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: September 7, 1999
Price: $13.00
"Vachss is a contemporary master."--The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
"Vachss' writing is like a dark roller coaster ride of fear, love and hate." --The Times- Picayune
A hit man defies the confines of a life sentence to avenge his sister's batterer. An immaculately dressed man hires a street gang to extract his daughter from a Central American... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: September 7, 1999
Price: $13.00
"Vachss is a contemporary master."--The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
"Vachss' writing is like a dark roller coaster ride of fear, love and hate." --The Times- Picayune
A hit man defies the confines of a life sentence to avenge his sister's batterer. An immaculately dressed man hires a street gang to extract his daughter from a Central American... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Born Bad
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: August 23, 1994
Price: $13.95
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 straight into the reader's back brain. Andrew Vachss might have scissored his characters from today's headlines: a stalker... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: August 23, 1994
Price: $13.95
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 straight into the reader's back brain. Andrew Vachss might have scissored his characters from today's headlines: a stalker... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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The Getaway Man
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: February 4, 2003
Price: $11.95
Eddie starts stealing cars long before he's old enough to get a license, driven by a force so compelling that he never questions, just obeys. After a series of false starts, interrupted by stays in juvenile institutions and a state prison term, Eddie's skills and loyalty attract the attention of J.C.... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: February 4, 2003
Price: $11.95
Eddie starts stealing cars long before he's old enough to get a license, driven by a force so compelling that he never questions, just obeys. After a series of false starts, interrupted by stays in juvenile institutions and a state prison term, Eddie's skills and loyalty attract the attention of J.C.... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
