Andrew H Vachss
Author
Series
Burke novels volume 16
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
When a client who had hired him to find a missing woman is gunned down just minutes after their meeting, Burke launches an investigation to find Beryl Preston, a girl he had rescued from a brutal pimp and returned to her father some twenty years earlier.
2) Only child
Author
Series
Burke novels volume 14
Formats
Description
Andrew Vachss's series hero, an outlaw vigilante named Burke, is on the trail of the man who murdered the teenage daughter of a Mafioso.
Author
Series
Aftershock novels (Andrew H. Vachss) volume 3
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
When a calculating predator threatens his loved ones, mercenary soldier Dell attempts to track down a killer who possesses an uncanny talent for disguise.
5) Haiku
Author
Formats
Description
Late one night, Michael--an addicted gambler who has lost everything, including himself--spots a woman in a white Rolls-Royce throwing something into the river. Convinced that the woman is a perfect blackmail target, he attempts to recruit a band of homeless outcasts to search for her. But news that a building is slated for demolition turns this halfhearted effort into a serious mission to find the ultimate problem-solver: money, and with it a new...
6) Shock wave
Author
Series
Aftershock novels (Andrew H. Vachss) volume 2
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
"Just before daybreak, a body washes up on a pristine beach. The dead man's skull has been bashed open, and his upper body is covered in neo-Nazi tattoos. An anonymous photographer e-mails an image of the scene to the local news, spurring the police to instantaneous response. Searching for suspects at one of the town's "homeless-by-choice" encampments, the cops pick up Homer, a "walking wounded" schizophrenic, who has been showing off a wristwatch...
Author
Series
Burke novels volume 11
Pub. Date
[1999]
Description
An avenger makes his appearance in New York, killing gay-bashers. The police want to arrest him, but others want to help him and they hire PI Burke to find the man.
8) Aftershock
Author
Series
Aftershock novels (Andrew H. Vachss) volume 1
Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
When the shining star of the girls' softball team shoots and kills the most popular boy in school, Dolly, friend to the local teenage girls, asks her husband Dell to uncover the true motive behind the inexplicable crime.
Author
Series
Burke novels volume 8
Pub. Date
1996
Description
Ex-con private investigator and rumored hit man Burke isbeing stalked by two rogue cops. One wants him to free a man charged with a string of rape-murders, the other is trying to frame Burke for the same crimes.
10) Shella: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
[1993]
Description
Tells the story of a killer stalking his prey, driven by forces he cannot understand.
11) Dead and gone
Author
Series
Burke novels volume 12
Pub. Date
2000.
Description
"It's not an unusual job for Burke -- ex-con, career criminal, and ultimate urban man-for-hire -- to act as middleman in an exchange of cash for a kidnapped child. But this time the only things exchanged are bullets. Burke loses his beloved partner, and lies in a hospital bed close to -- or maybe even past -- death, hovering in a netherworld of nightmares and hallucinations. When he finally escapes from the hospital, his appearance has changed radically...
12) Strega: a novel
Author
Series
Burke novels volume 2
Pub. Date
1987
Description
Private eye and ex con Burke is on the trail of a photograph that haunts the dreams of a sexually abused six-year-old boy.
13) Carbon
Author
Pub. Date
2019
Description
"In The City, government is god -- in The Sector, anarchy rules. The Membrane stands between those worlds. Some cross it to The Sector, seeking the forbidden. Some cross it to The City, seeking a chance to see the sky. Some try to stay. Most die trying. In a world without paper, names are earned. Sector-born, Carbon has been forged by his life, and violence became his only credential. Knowing his life expectancy, Carbon risked everything for a chance...
16) Flood
Author
Series
Burke novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2009
Description
Burke teams up with his new client, a beautiful woman who wants Burke to find a child's murderer so she can kill him with her bare hands.
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
When there is no longer any reliable source of "news," there is nothing to trust . . . and "The Terror" descends. For decades, The Rulers have been at work, using prisoner/slave labor to construct Underground, believing that all those who flee there will trade their freedom for security. Now, "truth" is what the Rulers say it is, and The Rulers rule all. But even within this antiseptically evil world, a revolution is brewing. A new breed of journalists--known...