Sacrifice

Vachss, Andrew

ISBN 10: 0804109192 / ISBN 13: 9780804109192

Verlag: Ivy Books, 1992

Befriedigend/Good: Durchschnittlich erhaltenes Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit Gebrauchsspuren, aber vollständigen Seiten. / Describes the average WORN book or dust jacket that has all the pages present. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers M00804109192-G

Inhaltsangabe:

When a battered child disappears, Burke--a tough private investigator on a mission to fight child abuse--investigates and is sucked down into the bowels of the city, where he meets an urban voodoo queen. Reprint.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: Andrew Vachss, an attorney in private practice specializing in juvenile justice and child abuse, is the country’s best recognized and most widely sought after spokesperson on crimes against children. He is also a bestselling novelist and short story writer, whose works include Flood (1985), the novel which first introduced Vachss’ series character Burke, Strega (1987), Choice of Evil (1999), and Dead and Gone (2000). His short stories have appeared in Esquire, Playboy, and The Observer, and he is a contributor to ABA Journal, Journal of Psychohistory, New England Law Review, The New York Times, and Parade.

Vachss has worked as a federal investigator in sexually transmitted diseases, a caseworker in New York, and a professional organizer. He was the director of an urban migrants re-entry center in Chicago and another for ex-cons in Boston. After managing a maximum-security prison for violent juvenile offenders, he published his first book, a textbook, about the experience. He was also deeply involved in the relief effort in Biafra, now Nigeria.

For ten years, Vachss’ law practice combined criminal defense with child protection, until, with the success of his novels, it segued exclusively into the latter, which is his passion. Vachss calls the child protective movement “a war,” and considers his writing as powerful a weapon as his litigation.


From the Trade Paperback edition.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Sacrifice
Verlag: Ivy Books
Erscheinungsdatum: 1992
Einband: Softcover
Zustand: good