Three Burke Novels, 3-Book Bundle

Three Burke Novels, 3-Book Bundle

Flood, Strega, Blue Belle

About the Book

Andrew Vachss's Burke is one of the most cold-blooded yet strangely honorable protagonists in the history of crime fiction, an outlaw who makes his living by preying on the most vicious of New York City's bottom-feeders, those who thrive on the suffering of the defenseless. In these three thrillers, Vachss gives us a series of stories 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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FLOOD: The renegade “investigator” Burke teams up with a lethally gifted avenger to follow a baby’s murderer through the foul catacombs of New York, where every alley is blind and the penthouses are as dangerous as the basements. Fearfully knowing, crackling with narrative tension, and written in prose as forceful as a hollow-point slug, Flood is Burke at his deadliest--and Vachss at the peak of his form.
 
STREGA: The urban mercenary has a new client, a deadly and sultry woman who calls herself “Strega.” She wants Burke to find a kiddie porn Polaroid, and she’s prepared to pay whatever that might cost. The search will take Burke back into the fetid river that flows just beneath the city: its currents are flesh and money, the anguish of children, and the pleasure of twisted adults. It is a river Burke can navigate only at the risk of unleashing the rage that is never far beneath his icy surface. But considering who actually hired him, refusing the job isn't an option. 

BLUE BELLE: Burke is given a purse full of dirty money to find the infamous Ghost Van that is cutting a lethal swath among teenage prostitutes who work the night streets. During the track-down job, he finds a stripper named Belle, whose moves on the runway are outclassed only by her skills as a getaway driver. But not even Burke is prepared for the evil that powers the Ghost Van, or for the sheer menace of its guardian, a skeletal martial artist who wants to add Max the Silent to his long lost of underground fight kills.
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Praise for Three Burke Novels, 3-Book Bundle

Flood

"An extraordinary thriller. . . Vachss never flinches from the horror."
    --Washington Post Book World

"Vachss's tough guy writing style grabs you by the hair and jerks you to attention."
    --Detroit Free Press

Strega

"So hard-boiled that it makes Mike Hammer and Sam Spade look like running yolks." 
    —Chicago Sun-Times

"An absolute stunner, the toughest crime novel, and one of the most realistic, any American writer has produced."
    —The Cleveland Plain Dealer


Blue Belle

"A book so ferocious, with characters so venal and actions so breakneck, that you dare not get in the way. . . . First rate."
    --Chicago Tribune

"A tough crime novel that pulls no punches; it places Vachss in the front rank of contemporary American crime writers."
    --Kansas City Star


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Burke Series

Three Burke Novels, 3-Book Bundle
Another Life
Terminal
Mask Market
Down Here
Only Child
Pain Management
Dead and Gone
Choice of Evil
Safe House
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About the Author

Andrew Vachss
Andrew Vachss is a lawyer who represents children and youths exclusively. His many books include the Burke series, the Aftershock trilogy, the Cross series, numerous stand-alone novels, and three collections of short stories. His novels have been translated into 20 languages, and his work has appeared in Parade, Antaeus, Esquire, Playboy, and The New York Times, among other publications. He divides his time between his native New York City and the Pacific Northwest. More by Andrew Vachss
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