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ANDREW VACHSS is a lawyer who represents children and youths exclusively. He divides his time between his native New York City and the Pacific Northwest. |
Trade Paperback | Vintage | Fiction - Thrillers | 978-0-307-39039-4 (0-307-39039-X) | September 2009 | $ 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
Trade Paperback | Vintage | Fiction - Thrillers | 978-0-307-38705-9 (0-307-38705-4) | December 2008 | $ 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
Trade Paperback | Vintage | Fiction - Mystery & Detective | 978-0-307-45481-2 (0-307-45481-9) | August 2008 | $ 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
Trade Paperback | Vintage | Fiction - Thrillers | 978-1-4000-7938-4 (1-4000-7938-1) | June 2006 | $ 14.95
In his most original and compelling book yet, Andrew Vachss presents an electrifying tale of corruption in a devastated mill town. It is 1959--a moment in history when the clandestine, powerful forces that will shape America to the present day are about to collide.
Walker Dett is a hired gun, known for... Read More
Trade Paperback | Vintage | Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Hard-Boiled; Fiction - Thrillers | 978-1-4000-7611-6 (1-4000-7611-0) | April 2005 | $ 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
Trade Paperback | Vintage | Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Hard-Boiled; Fiction - Thrillers | 978-1-4000-3098-9 (1-4000-3098-6) | October 2003 | $ 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
Trade Paperback | Vintage | Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Hard-Boiled | 978-1-4000-3119-1 (1-4000-3119-2) | February 2003 | $ 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
Trade Paperback | Vintage | Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Hard-Boiled | 978-0-375-72647-7 (0-375-72647-0) | October 2002 | $ 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
Trade Paperback | Vintage | Fiction - Mystery & Detective | 978-0-375-72526-5 (0-375-72526-1) | September 2001 | $ 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
Trade Paperback | Vintage | Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Hard-Boiled | 978-0-375-70662-2 (0-375-70662-3) | May 2000 | $ 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
Trade Paperback | Vintage | Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Hard-Boiled; Fiction - Short Stories (single author) | 978-0-375-70743-8 (0-375-70743-3) | September 1999 | $ 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
Trade Paperback | Vintage | Fiction - Mystery & Detective; Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Hard-Boiled | 978-0-375-70074-3 (0-375-70074-9) | March 1999 | $ 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
Trade Paperback | Vintage | Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Hard-Boiled | 978-0-679-78129-5 (0-679-78129-3) | March 1998 | $ 13.95
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Trade Paperback | Vintage | Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Hard-Boiled | 978-0-679-77293-4 (0-679-77293-6) | October 1997 | $ 12.95
"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
Trade Paperback | Vintage | Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Hard-Boiled; Fiction - Literary | 978-0-679-77261-3 (0-679-77261-8) | October 1996 | $ 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
Trade Paperback | Vintage | Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Hard-Boiled; Fiction - Literary | 978-0-679-76663-6 (0-679-76663-4) | October 1996 | $ 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
Trade Paperback | Vintage | Fiction - Mystery & Detective | 978-0-679-76410-6 (0-679-76410-0) | January 1996 | $ 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
Trade Paperback | Vintage | Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Hard-Boiled | 978-0-679-76409-0 (0-679-76409-7) | January 1996 | $ 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
Trade Paperback | Vintage | Fiction - Mystery & Detective | 978-0-679-76168-6 (0-679-76168-3) | July 1995 | $ 13.95
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Trade Paperback | Vintage | Fiction - Mystery & Detective | 978-0-679-76066-5 (0-679-76066-0) | July 1995 | $ 13.00
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
Trade Paperback | Vintage | Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Hard-Boiled | 978-0-679-76169-3 (0-679-76169-1) | July 1995 | $ 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
Trade Paperback | Vintage | Fiction - Mystery & Detective; Fiction - Short Stories (single author) | 978-0-679-75336-0 (0-679-75336-2) | August 1994 | $ 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
Trade Paperback | Vintage | Fiction - Mystery & Detective | 978-0-679-75681-1 (0-679-75681-7) | August 1994 | $ 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