Hard Candy - Hardcover

Vachss, Andrew H.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0394577914 ISBN 13: 9780394577913

Verlag: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 1989

Inhaltsangabe

P.I. Burke gets unwillingly advertised as a gun-for-hire and pressure from the police and the Mafia, but decides to rescue a young girl from the dangers of a "safe house" for teenagers

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Andrew Vachss has been a federal investigator in sexually transmitted diseases, a social caseworker, and a labor organizer, and has directed a maximum-security prison for youthful offenders. Now a lawyer in private practice, he represents children and youth exclusively. He is the author of numerous novels, two collections of short stories, three graphic series, and <i>Another Chance to Get It Right: A Children's Book for Adults</i>. His work has appeared in <i>Parade, Esquire, Antaeus, The New York Times</i>, and many other forums. Born and raised in New York City, he now lives in the Pacific Northwest.<br><br>The dedicated Web site for Vachss and his work is www.vachss.com

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ilessly 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 target for an entire Mafia family, a whore with a heart of cyanide, and a contract killer as implacable as a heat-seeking missile. Written with Vachss's signature narrative overdrive—and his unnerving familiarity with the sub-basement of American crime—<b>Hard Candy</b> is vintage Burke.<br><br><br><i>From the Trade Paperback edition.</i>

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Alfred a Knopf Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1989
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0394577914
• ISBN 13: 9780394577913
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
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