Flood
by Andrew Vachss
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Author: Andrew VachssEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1998-03-10
ISBN: 0679781293
Number of pages: 368
Publisher: Vintage
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Book Review: The first of the Burke series
Summary: 4 Stars
This was written in the early 80's when subjects like child abuse were hugely ignored. Meet Burke, ex-con, criminal, gambler, scam artist and private investigator. He takes cases that cops and most other private eye's will not touch. If he takes the case at all. Burke is suspicious of everyone except his close-knit adoptive family: Max the Silent: a deaf, mute, silent Mongolian martial artist, Michelle: a Transvestite hooker, Mole: a genius inventor who runs a junk yard packed with vicious dogs, The Prof: a brilliant philosopher street criminal. Mama: the Chinese restaurant owner and racketeer. Pansy: Burke's mastiff with a personality of its own. Burke drives a souped up performance car, given to him by a former client. The car looks like a beater, but is a small tank that out-races a sports car. One day, a woman named Flood approaches Burke to find the killer of her friend's baby. Burke takes the case which takes him through the world of pimps, prostitutes and mercenaries. Because of his criminal background, Burke is able to enter doors where the normal citizens or police cannot...do not want to go. Eventually, Burke lures the baby killer into a trap, where his client, Flood, challenges the killer to a death match. Good fight scenes. I liked the short paragraph writing style and the social commentary about child abuse, human traffickers, drugs and the criminal justice system.
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In this cauterizing thriller, Andrew Vachss's renegade private eye teams up with a lethally gifted vigilante to follow a child's murderer through the catacombs of New York, where every alley is a setup for a mugging and every tenement has something rotten in the basement.United States Books
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