“Burke would eat Spade and Marlowe for breakfast, not even spitting out the bones. [He] is one tough, mean, pray-god-you-don’t-meet-him…hombre.” –Boston Herald
“A book so ferocious, with characters so venal and actions so breakneck, that you dare not get in the way…. First rate.”- Chicago Tribune
“A tough crime novel that pulls no punches; it places Vachss in the front rank of contemporary American crime writers.”-Kansas City Star
