Andrew Vachss has been a federal investigator in the area of
sexually transmitted diseases, a social-services caseworker, a
labor organizer, and the director of a maximum-security prison for
aggressive-violent youth. Now a lawyer and consultant in private
practice, he represents children and youths exclusively. A native
New Yorker, Vachss divides his time between the city of his birth
and the Pacific Northwest.
The dedicated Web site for Andrew Vachss and his work is
www.vachss.com.
"Another Life" is the end of a journey that began with "Flood,"
Andrew Vachss's first novel featuring career criminal Burke and his
Family of Choice. "I didn't set out to write a series. Who but a
terminal narcissist would?" the author says of his 1985 debut. But
twenty-three years-and seventeen Burke novels-later, Andrew Vachss
is finally bringing down the curtain on a series that has been
described as "urban nightmares" by "Publishers Weekly," and
"strong, gritty, gut-bucket stuff" by the "Chicago Tribune." Anyone
who has felt a part of the family that includes recurring series
characters Max, the Mole, Michelle, the Prof, Terry, Clarence, and
Mama-characters the "Seattle Post-Intelligencer" says "are as
sharply defined as if they were etched in steel"-will want to be
there for the end of the journey, as best-selling, award- winning
author Andrew Vachss ties up the loose ends, and sends his Family
of Choice off to ... "Another Life."
"There's no way to put a [Vachss book] down once you've begun . . .
The plot hooks are engaging and the one-liners pierce like
bullets."
-"Detroit Free Press"
"Vachss is just about the toughest of contemporary crime novelists.
[He] waves a powerful light across a city landscape that few
writers go near and none portray so convincingly."
-"Los Angeles Times
""The hardest-boiled crime fiction this side of Sing Sing."
-"USA Today
""Sheer narrative drive is only part of what has kept readers
coming back for more. [Burke] is a hero of our times. . . lord of
the asphalt jungle."
-"The Washington Post Book World
""Vachss's style is as inimitable and passionate as ever."
-"Rocky Mountain News
""Vachss is a contemporary master."
-"The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
""Writing in a style so sleekly engineered that it purrs when you
pop the hood, Vachss gives such a smooth ride that it's easy to
forget someone is driving."
-"The New York Times
""Vachss has always been able
"There's no way to put a [Vachss book] down once you've begun . . .
The plot hooks are engaging and the one-liners pierce like
bullets."
-"Detroit Free Press"
"Vachss is just about the toughest of contemporary crime novelists.
[He] waves a powerful light across a city landscape that few
writers go near and none portray so convincingly."
-"Los Angeles Times
""The hardest-boiled crime fiction this side of Sing Sing."
-"USA Today
""Sheer narrative drive is only part of what has kept readers
coming back for more. [Burke] is a hero of our times. . . lord of
the asphalt jungle."
-"The Washington Post Book World
""Vachss's style is as inimitable and passionate as ever."
-"Rocky Mountain News
""Vachss is a contemporary master."
-"The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
""Writing in a style so sleekly engineered that it purrs when you
pop the hood, Vachss gives such a smooth ride that it's easy to
forget someone is driving."
-"The New York Times
""Vachss has always been able to make other writers look
candy-asses . . . And it's not because he manages to marry grim
idealism to action-driven plots. It's because of the unflinching
way he looks at evil."
-"Chicago Reader
""Vachss is red hot and as serious as a punctured lung."
-"Playboy
""The New York Burke inhabits is not borrowed from anybody and
shimmers on the page as gaudily and scarily as it does on the
street."
-"New York
"
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