Burke's newest client is a woman named Flood, who has the face of an angel, the body of a high-priced stripper, and the skills of a professional executioner.Β She wants Burke to find a monster for herβso she can kill him with her bare hands.In this cauterizing thriller, Andrew Vachss's renegade priv
Strega (A Burke Novel)
β Scribed by Andrew Vachss
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Year
- 1996
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 273
- Series
- Burke Novels 2
- Edition
- 1st Vintage Crime/Black Lizard ed
- Category
- Library
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
Andrew Vachss's implacable private eye has a new client, Strega. She wants Burke to find an obscene photographβand that search will take him into the ocean that flows just beneath the city, an ocean whose currents are flesh and money, the anguish of children and the pleasure of twisted adults. It is a place that Burke can visit only at the risk of his sanity and his life. But between the power of Strega and his own sense of justice, there is no turning back.In Strega one of our most acclaimed crime writers gives us a thriller that might have been imagined by Dante. For this is a tour of hell with no stops left out, conducted by a novelist who writes with the authority of the damned.
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