False Allegations Paperback - 1997
by Andrew Vachss
An ex-con, mercenary, and sometimes killer, Burke makes his living preying on New York's vicious predators, avenging their innocent victims. But in Andrew Vachss's intense new novel, 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--and as dirty.
Summary
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"In the first rank of American crime writers. . . . Next to Vachss, Chandler, Cain and Hammett look like choirboys."
--Cleveland Plain Dealer Burke--ex-con, mercenary, sometime killer--makes his living preying on New York's most vicious predators and avenging their innocent victims. But in Andrew Vachss's mercilessly suspenseful new novel, 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--and as dirty.
Burke's new employer is Kite, a fanatical crusader who specializes in debunking "false allegations of child sexual abuse. Kite has a case that may be the real thing, but needs Burke to tell him if it is. And if mere money can't persuade Burke to cooperate, Kite has plenty of other incentives at his disposal--including a fanatical bodyguard with a taste for corsets and brass knuckles. A tour guide to hell written in icy prose, False Allegations is Vachss at his most unnerving.
"Burke is the toughest talking first-person narrator since Mike Hammer."
--Los Angeles Times "Vachss . . . writes hypnotically violent prose."
--Chicago Sun-Times
Details
- Title False Allegations
- Author Andrew Vachss
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Vintage CrimeBla
- Pages 240
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date October 28, 1997
- ISBN 9780679772934 / 0679772936
- Weight 0.59 lbs (0.27 kg)
- Dimensions 7.98 x 5.17 x 0.68 in (20.27 x 13.13 x 1.73 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Mid-Atlantic
- Cultural Region: Northeast U.S.
- Demographic Orientation: Urban
- Geographic Orientation: New York
- Locality: New York, N.Y.
- Library of Congress subjects Mystery fiction, New York (N.Y.)
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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