Andrew Vachss, Geoff Darrow, Michael A. Black, and Gary Gianni. Dark Horse, $15.99 trade paper (96p) ISBN 978-1-61655-056-1
As written and drawn by Darrow, with input from the Wachowskis, the Shaolin Cowboy comic was a kinetic tour de force, full of violent humor and cinematic fury. If you’re seeking that with this one-shot tribute to pulp novels, you’re in for a...
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Andrew H. Vachss, Author Alfred A. Knopf $23 (0p) ISBN 978-0-679-45109-9
Each of Vachss's 10 previous novels has dealt with child abuse, but he's worked other themes as well, most notably the volatility of love and the hypocrisies of the middle class. Judging by his darkly disturbing Batman novel of last year (Batman:...
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Andrew Vachss. Pantheon, $26.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-307-90774-5
Prolific author Vachss (Another Life) introduces Dell, a graduate of the French Foreign Legion, in this compelling first in a new thriller series. Now retired from mercenary work, Dell lives with his true love, Dolly, in a small Oregon town where he
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Andrew Vachss. Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, $13.95 trade paper (240p) ISBN 978-0-307-94957-8
Having appeared in short stories and comics, Cross, the “ultra-pragmatic man-for-hire,” makes his full-length fiction debut in this lively cartoon in prose from Anthony Award–finalist Vachss (Batman: The Ultimate Evil). Cross and his unusual crew (Bu
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Andrew Vachss. Pantheon, $25.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-307-37994-8
One can count on Vachss being grim whether writing one of his Burke novels (Another Life, etc.) or a stand-alone like The Weight, but this first-person story, which narrator Esau Till makes clear is neither apology nor confession, is grimmer than...
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Andrew H. Vachss, Author Alfred A. Knopf $25 (352p) ISBN 978-0-375-41121-2
Burke, the dark avenger of Vachss's ultra-gritty urban crime series, has been killing bad people--usually child molesters--for most of his 40-odd years. Somebody was bound to catch up with him eventually, and that's exactly what happens in this 13th
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Andrew H. Vachss, Author Alfred A. Knopf $23 (237p) ISBN 978-0-679-44500-5
The suburban sojourn of the Manhattan outlaw PI Burke in Down in the Zero didn't breathe any fresh air into this increasingly stale series; this eighth entry is the weakest yet. Instead of one memorable villain, Vachss gives us two forgettable ones-b
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Andrew H. Vachss, Author Warner Books $19.95 (196p) ISBN 978-0-446-51912-0
Vachss and Batman seems a marriage made in publishing heaven--the creator of the underground PI Burke (the forthcoming Footsteps of the Hawk; Forecasts, July 24) taking on another soul-wounded, big-city night avenger. And it almost is. While no...
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Andrew H. Vachss, Author Alfred A. Knopf $20 (225p) ISBN 978-0-679-42416-1
Drawing on his experiences as a lawyer specializing in child abuse cases, Vachss has gained a reputation in his five previous novels ( Hard Candy ; Sacrifice ) as a portrayer of deviant criminals with warped minds and bizarre modus operandi. The...
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Andrew H. Vachss, Author Alfred A. Knopf $17.95 (255p) ISBN 978-0-394-58523-9
Vachss ( Flood ) is not for everyone, but fans of his hard-hitting series about Burke, the tough ex-con who mercilessly tracks criminals and degenerates down to society's seamiest depths, will find this fifth installment as riveting as his previous...
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Andrew H. Vachss, Author Signet Book $4.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-451-16290-8
When Burke, a yuppie-hating, horse-playing ex-con and private-eye outlaw, takes on the Times Square world of porn and murder, he finds himself facing a deadly karate expert and falling for a masochistic woman who's learning to deal with her past as...
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Andrew H. Vachss, Author Alfred A. Knopf $17.95 (241p) ISBN 978-0-394-57791-3
At the onset of Vachss's fourth street-smart novel featuring unlicensed New York private eye Burke, word is out that the ex-con PI has become a gun-for-hire. Besides coping with this crazy rumor, Burke contends with two figures from his youth who...
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Andrew H. Vachss, Author Signet Book $4.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-451-16690-6
Vachss's fourth street-smart novel featuring an unlicensed, ex-con private eye known as Burke has the shamus trying to rescue an old flame's daughter from a cult in Brooklyn, while coping with the rumor that he has become a gun for hire. ``Burke's...
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Andrew H. Vachss, Author Alfred A. Knopf $15.95 (339p) ISBN 978-0-394-57228-4
Burke, the private-eye outlaw with a big place in his heart for kids, is back. When the yuppie-hating horse-playing ex-con takes on the Times Square world of porn and murder, he finds himself facing a deadly karateka (karate expert) named Mortay and
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Andrew H. Vachss, Author Alfred A. Knopf $18.95 (293p) ISBN 978-0-394-55937-7
In his first novel, Flood, attorney-turned-novelist Vachss introduced Burke, the ex-con investigator who's not averse to working either side of the law. The book captured the brutal atmosphere of New York's underbelly. This modern-day Robin Hood...
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Andrew H. Vachss, Author Alfred A. Knopf $23 (305p) ISBN 978-0-375-40647-8
Urban nightmares have been Vachss's stock-in-writing-trade since his debut 14 years ago with the extraordinary Flood. His 11th Burke novel is more nightmare than most, a dizzying shapeshifter of a tale that speeds suspense, vengeance, retribution,...
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Andrew H. Vachss, Author Warner Books $5.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-446-60336-2
Crime novelist Vachss presents a Batman novel in which Bruce Wayne must come to grips with a shocking revelation about his own past. (Aug.)
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Andrew H. Vachss, Author . Knopf $24 (288p) ISBN 978-0-375-41487-9
"Sherlock Holmes is dead," intones Giovanni, a New York Mafia boss who hires street criminal Burke—who's made a career of killing child murderers and molesters—to solve the murder of his illegitimate teenage daughter, Vonni.
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Andrew H. Vachss, Author . Vintage Crime/Black Lizard $11 (208p) ISBN 978-1-4000-3119-1
This slim retro-look paperback by crime master Vachss (Only Child; Pain Management) delivers the guilty pleasure of a dime novel, which means that although it is a few writerly steps up from a Dick Tracy comic, the emphasis is on action....
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Andrew H. Vachss, Author . Knopf $19.95 (304p) ISBN 978-1-4000-4173-2
Burke is back with a vengeance, and with the full complement of underground irregulars who've populated his dozen or so previous noir adventures. For starters, there's Max the Silent and the Prof (short for both Professor and Prophet),...
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Andrew H. Vachss, Author . Pantheon $25 (447p) ISBN 978-1-4000-4381-1
Vachss's latest, set in 1959, leaves recurring character Burke behind to explore the teeming, clannish, race-driven underside of American politics. The Southern town of Locke City, at the mountainous foot of the rust belt, has become the vice-dri
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Andrew H. Vachss, Author . Pantheon $24.95 (241p) ISBN 978-0-375-42422-9
Hard-boiled crime fans will enjoy the latest entry in Vachss's long-running Burke series (Down Here
, etc.). The renegade New York City PI, who operates by an idiosyncratic private moral code, has been lying low since being shot in the face. But
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Andrew H. Vachss, Author . Pantheon $24.95 (271p) ISBN 978-0-307-37741-8
After a nicely gritty opening (“Revenge is like any other religion: There's always a lot more preaching than there is practicing”), Vachss's 18th Burke thriller (after Terminal
) goes off in disparate directions that never...
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Andrew H. Vachss, Author Vintage Books USA $12.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-679-76663-6
Latest installment in the Burke series, in which the gritty detective finds himself battling two rogue cops. (Nov.)
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Andrew H. Vachss, Author Vintage Books USA $13 (384p) ISBN 978-0-375-70743-8
Burke, Vachss's popular underground PI, is nowhere to be found in this second collection (after Born Bad, 1994) of short stories from his creator's stiletto of a pen. Fans won't much mind: Cross, the mercenary crook who's so hard he makes tough...
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Andrew H. Vachss, Author Pantheon Books $24.95 (243p) ISBN 978-0-375-42508-0
Vachss's 17th Burke novel (after 2006's Mask Murder) combines gritty realism with an over-the-top depiction of an omniscient spy network. Claude Dremdell, a white supremacist whose sole hope against his terminal illness is a pricy experimental Swiss
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Andrew H. Vachss, Author Ivy Books $5.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8041-0751-8
Burke, a tough ex-con who ruthlessly tracks criminals, makes his fifth appearance here as he investigates several sex-related murders in an Indiana town. ``Many scenes are uncomfortably graphic and intense in themselves; their cumulative effect is...
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Andrew H. Vachss, Author . Knopf $24 (320p) ISBN 978-0-375-41322-3
Fans of the Burke series who cheered the author's sudden relocation of his surly protagonist to the Pacific Northwest in Dead and Gone
(2000) will be pleased by this latest installment. Burke, the sociopath ex-con with a reputation for hunting...
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Andrew H. Vachss, Author, Marty Asher, Editor Vintage Books USA $13.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-679-75336-0
Hard, dark, and raw, this collection of 40 short stories and a play provides ample material for Vachss fans. Unfortunately, the quality varies greatly, ranging from the author's earliest, sometimes sophomoric writings to his more current,...
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Andrew H. Vachss, Author, Marty Asher, Editor Vintage Books USA $13 (240p) ISBN 978-0-679-75681-1
In Vachss's seventh novel, an asassin searches for his partner in crime, a topless dancer who vanished three years ago. (Aug.)
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Andrew H. Vachss, Author, Various, Illustrator, Andrew H. Vachss, Illustrator . Dark Horse $19.95 (250p) ISBN 978-1-56971-829-2
This well-crafted collection of comics adaptations of stories by Vachss, creator of the popular Burke mystery series and a former federal investigator, is an unlikely artistic triumph. Vachss, who wrote an authorized novel based on Batman in 1995,...
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Andrew H. Vachss, Author, Sonny Mehta, Editor Alfred A. Knopf $20 (0p) ISBN 978-0-679-40283-1
In his latest assault on sexual abusers of children, super-tough Manhattan maverick PI Burke works both sides of the law to save Luke, an eight-year-old suspect in a series of baby murders. His roster of eccentric friends (familiar from Blossom,...
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Andrew H. Vachss, Author, Sonny Mehta, Editor Alfred A Knopf Inc $21 (0p) ISBN 978-0-679-43328-6
In his seventh outing, Burke, Vachss's flinty ex-con and relentless crusader for abused kids last featured in Sacrifice , is still reeling after having killed a kid in a previous case gone sour. Here, he leaves his underground detective network...
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