Andrew Vachss

The acclaimed and ground breaking collection of short stories, poetry, and allegory by Andrew Vachss, one of the most powerful voices in the field of child protection....

For all secrets created, a tiny percentage is kept against any intrusion. The ultimate extractor of such secrets is the Questioner - a man who has trained himself to become empty, to sense what others need to hear, to respond in ways that lead them to reveal their most protected thoughts....

Electrifying, compelling, and ultimately terrifying, Two Trains Running is a galvanizing evocation of that moment in our history when the violent forces that would determine America’s future were just beginning to roil below the surface....

Ho was a revered sensei, but when his dismissive arrogance caused the death of a beloved student, he renounced not only his possessions but also his role as master....

Andrew Vachss returns with a mesmerizing novel about a hard-core thief who’s about to embark on a job that will alter his life forever....

After pleading guilty to a series of homicides, Esau Till sits on death row, writing his life story. But his memoir is his one last chance to protect his brother....

Andrew Vachss collects 20 tight, powerful stories - all from the past decade of his career, including some now published for the first time - along with an original screenplay....

From the author of the acclaimed Burke private-eye series comes an ambitious and chilling novel that shows us not only what evil is, but where it comes from.....

Eddie starts stealing cars long before he's old enough to get a license. Driven by a force so compelling that he never questions, just obeys...

Veil's Visit is an original Hap & Leonard short story co-authored by Joe R. Lansdale and Andrew Vachss, in which Leonard gets taken to court to answer for burning down a crack house....

Burke is back, but still lurking in the shadows, unable to return home....

Burke finds himself working the other side of the street, where guilt and innocence are as disposable as the sheets in a Times Square hotel....

In this mercilessly compelling thriller, Burke — the private eye, sting artist, and occasional hit man who metes out a cruelly ingenious vengeance on those who victimize children .....

With the Prof clinging to life in an underground hospital facility, a man named Pryce shows up to make Burke an offer....

In the figure of Burke, Andrew Vachss has given contemporary crime fiction one of its most mesmerizing characters....

Andrew Vachss’s implacable private eye has a new client, Strega. She wants Burke to find an obscene photograph and that search will take him into the ocean that flows just beneath the city....

When his girlfriend, Crystal Beth, is gunned down at a gay rights rally in Central Park, Burke, the underground man-for-hire and expert hunter of predators, vows vengeance....

What — or who — could turn a gifted little boy into a murderous thing that calls itself "Satan’s Child"....

They meet in a no-name diner. A shadowy man hands Burke a CD dossier of someone he wants found....

A pulse-quickening new crime novel featuring Burke, ex-con, private investigator, and rumored hit man....