Flood
by:
Andrew Vachss (author)
Burke’s newest client is a woman named Flood, who has the face of an angel, the body of a high-priced stripper, and the skills of a professional executioner. She wants Burke to find a monster for her — so she can kill him with her bare hands. In this cauterizing thriller, Andrew Vachss’s renegade...
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Burke’s newest client is a woman named Flood, who has the face of an angel, the body of a high-priced stripper, and the skills of a professional executioner. She wants Burke to find a monster for her — so she can kill him with her bare hands. In this cauterizing thriller, Andrew Vachss’s renegade private eye teams up with a lethally gifted avenger to follow a child’s murderer through the catacombs of New York, where every alley is blind and the penthouses are as dangerous as the basements. Fearfully knowing, crackling with narrative tension, and written in prose as forceful as a hollow-point slug, Flood is Burke at his deadliest — and Vachss at the peak of his form. “An extraordinary thriller. . . . Vachss never flinches from the horror.” — Washington Post Book World “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
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780671619053 (0671619055)
Publish date: July 1st 1986
Publisher: Pocket Books
Pages no: 344
Edition language: English
Series: Burke (#1)
My introduction to Burke, bought in a secondhand bookstore, Flood blew me off my feet. I read the whole series and badgered the Amsterdam public library with requests to include the books into the catalog.Recommended reading for fans of hardboiled, gritty, realistic crime fiction.
When I finished reading Flood, I put the book down and said to myself, “I can’t read Vachss again and I want to take a shower to get the grime off me.” However, in retrospect how often does a book leave such a strong impression on your psyche? How often does a book leave such intense and raw feeli...
A woman named Flood shows up at Burke's office and hires him to find a child molester calling himself the Cobra so she can kill him with her bare hands. Can Burke navigate the cesspools of New York and bring in the Cobra?You know a crime book is going to be good when the author has an eye patch. I...