Andrew Vachss, Author . Pantheon $24.95 (213p) ISBN 978-0-307-37849-1
Vachss, author of the long-running Burke series that concluded with 2008’s Another Life
, introduces an engaging if damaged new hero in this soulful thriller. Ho, an elderly martial arts teacher who once was the master of a successful dojo,...
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Andrew Vachss, Pantheon, $25.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-307-37919-1
At the start of this tepid stand-alone from Vachss (Haiku), professional thief Tim "Sugar" Caine finds himself in an interesting dilemma—a rape victim has mistakenly identified him as her attacker, but he hesitates to tell the cops the truth because
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Andrew Vachss. Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, $14.95 trade paper (272p) ISBN 978-0-8041-6881-6
The enigmatic Cross and his crew of misfits, who occupy a fortified position in a ruined Chicago, kill for money, or to make a point, though they do neither indiscriminately, as shown in Vachss’s hard-hitting sequel to 2012’s Blackjack. Cross’s...
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Andrew Vachss. Pantheon, $26.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-307-90885-8
In Vachss’s engrossing sequel to 2013’s Aftershock, a battered corpse with a shattered skull washes up on the beach of the Oregon town where Adelbert “Dell” Jackson and his wife, Dolly, have settled, determined to live peacefully under aliases. The...
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Andrew Vachss. Pantheon, $26.95 (272p) ISBN 978-1-101-87044-0
In Vachss’s entertaining third Aftershock novel (following 2014’s Shock Wave), the deadly Dell, who’s put his career as an assassin behind him and retired to the Oregon coast, where he lives off the grid, once again comes to the rescue of Dolly, the
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Andrew Vachss. Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, $15 trade paper (304p) ISBN 978-1-101-97029-4
Vachss’s third outing for the urban mercenary known only as Cross (after 2014’s Urban Renewal) is an uneasy blend of gritty crime novel and supernatural thriller. Sometime in the past, Cross, as part of an “off-the-books government unit,” takes on a
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