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Pain Management: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

Autor Andrew H. Vachss
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 sep 2002
Burke is back, but still lurking in the shadows, unable to return home. He is prowling the unfamiliar streets of Portland, Oregon, in search of a runaway teen. By all accounts, Rosebud Carlin is a happy, well-adjusted girl. She doesn’t fit the profile of the runaway kids Burke knows so wellÉand once was. But there’s something about her fatherÉ

Burke knows the street script, but the actors are all strangers. Cut off from his family and his network of criminal contacts, Burke is forced into a dangerous alliance with a renegade group dedicated to providing relief to those in intractable pain by any means necessary. A bargain is struck, and the fuse is lit. Heart-stopping and hard-hitting, Pain Management is the latest bout in Andrew Vachss's thrilling reign as undisputed champ of brass knuckles noir.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780375726477
ISBN-10: 0375726470
Pagini: 336
Dimensiuni: 127 x 207 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.26 kg
Editura: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Seria Vintage Crime/Black Lizard


Notă biografică

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.

Extras

Burke is back, but still lurking in the shadows, unable to return home. He is prowling the unfamiliar streets of Portland, Oregon, in search of a runaway teen. By all accounts, Rosebud Carlin is a happy, well-adjusted girl. She doesn't fit the profile of the runaway kids Burke knows so well...and once was. But there's something about her father...
Burke knows the street script, but the actors are all strangers. Cut off from his family and his network of criminal contacts, Burke is forced into a dangerous alliance with a renegade group dedicated to providing relief to those in intractable pain by any menas necessary. A bargain is struck, and the fuse is lit. Heart-stopping and hard-hitting, Pain Management is the latest bout in Andrew Vachss's thrilling reign as undisputed champ of brass knuckles noir.

Recenzii

“Some of the cleanest, meanest, stripped-down-and-sparkling prose ever penned.” –Austin Chronicle

“A beautifully brutal combination of pulpy noir and social commentary. . . . Vachss’s writing remains raw and hungry, with an epidermis of rage barely containing an infinite core of sadness.” –The Miami Herald

“Andrew Vachss could send his hero Burke to Mayberry, and he’d still
manage to uncover a dark underbelly of sin and corruption.” –Capital Times

“Gritty, fast-paced . . . One of the most hard-boiled and important crime series ever published.” –Huntsville Times


Descriere

Vachss's previous novel, "Dead and Gone, " was "like putting a vial of nitroglycerine into your pocket and going for a jogS ("Rocky Mt. News"). With his latest, Vachss turns the heat up by dropping his career criminal and ultimate urban survivalist, Burke, in the middle of some dangerously determined humans.