Down Here: A Burke Novel
by Andrew Vachss
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Author: Andrew VachssEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2005-04-12
ISBN: 1400076110
Number of pages: 304
Publisher: Vintage
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Book Review: laconic style
Summary: 4 Stars
Vachss' fiction stalks starkely across the pages. It's a spreading shadow across the imagination of the reader. His sparse and Spartan style is in the best tradition of American language, terse and precise like Hemingway but tight as a drum. In a word, "laconic" like the character Burke himself.
But for his disturbing, lurid and morally horrifying content, Vachss would be recognized as one of the best stylists of our day.
Summary of Down Here: A Burke Novel
For years Burke has harbored an outlaw's hard love for Wolfe, the beautiful, driven former sex-crimes prosecutor who was fired for refusing to "go along to get along." So when Wolfe is arrested for the attempted murder of John Anson Wychek, a vicious rapist she once prosecuted, Burke deals himself in. That means putting together a distrustful alliance between his underground "family of choice," Wolfe's private network, and?a rogue NYPD detective who has his own stake in the outcome.Burke knows that Wolfe's alleged "victim," although convicted only once, is actually a serial rapist. The deeper he presses, the more gaping holes he finds in the prosecution's case, but shadowy law enforcement agencies seem determined to protect Wychek at all costs, no matter who it sacrifices. Burke ups the ante by re-opening all the old "cold case" rape investigations, calls in a lot of markers from both sides of the law, and finally shows all the players why "down here" is no place for tourists.
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