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Jan 30, 1996 | ISBN 9780679764106 Buy
Sep 25, 2001 | ISBN 9780375719066 Buy
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Jan 30, 1996 | ISBN 9780679764106
Sep 25, 2001 | ISBN 9780375719066
What—or who—could turn a gifted little boy into a murderous thing that calls itself “Satan’s Child”? In search of an answer, a man named Burke travels from a festering welfare hotel to a neat frame house where a voodoo priestess presides over a congregation of assassins. For this vigilante and unlicensed private eye has made it his business to defend the small victims whom the law has failed—even a child who has been made into a killer.Gripping and chillingly knowledgeable about the mechanisms of evil, Sacrifice is a thriller of savage authority from one of the best crime writers of our generation.
Andrew Vachss is a lawyer who represents children and youths exclusively. His many books include the Burke series, the Aftershock trilogy, the Cross series, numerous stand-alone novels, and three collections of short stories. His novels have been translated into 20 languages, and his… More about Andrew Vachss
“Powerful… mesmerizing in its intensity.”- Los Angeles Times“Vaschss’s writing is as gritty as ever… It’s doubtful there’s another fictional private eye who can summon up in the reader as powerful—and powerfully conflicting—emotions as Burke can.”-Newsday“Vachss is a contemporary master… Decidedly hard-boiled, his prose is as lean, tough-edged and brittle as the man who is his protagonist.”- The Atlanta Journal-Constitution “A harrowing tale in which outcasts are the moral heroes and the people who belong to civilization are corrupt… An absolute original… Andrew Vachss has become a cult favorite, and for good reason.”- Cosmopolitan
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