Another Life, Andrew Vachss
Another Life, Andrew Vachss
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Another Life

Author: Andrew Vachss

Narrator: Christopher Lane

Unabridged: 8 hr 40 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Published: 12/30/2008

Synopsis

The only person Burke has ever called “father,” a legendary crime planner known throughout the underground as the Prof, is in a coma, barely clinging to life in the off-the-books hospital where the crew stashed him after their last job went off the rails. So when Pryce, a shadow-man with deep (and very dark) government connections, offers a package – Presidential-grade medical services for the Prof and a wiped-clean slate for everyone who participates – Burke signs the contract without reading it. The two-year-old son of a Saudi prince has been kidnapped. A highly professional snatch: no errors, no forensics...and no ransom note. Burke’s job: get the kid back. Whatever it costs, whatever it takes. Pryce came to Burke because the profile concluded this was the work of a pedophile ring. But after Burke turns over every rock and comes up empty in his hunt for maggots, the ultimate man-for-hire must return to the day “Baby Boy Burke” was written on his birth certificate to conduct the one interrogation that could possibly save this child and write, in the blood of his enemies, the final act of his life story.

About Andrew Vachss

Andrew Vachss is a lawyer who represents children and youths exclusively. His many novels and two collections of short stories have been translated into twenty languages, and his work has appeared in Parade, Esquire, Playboy, and The New York Times, among other publications. A native New Yorker, he divides his time between the city of his birth and the Pacific Northwest.

Reviews

AudiobooksNow review by Linda on 2012-11-05 19:23:12

I hate listening to pagefilling rehashing of the dialog from prior books. There is LOTS of that! And then there is the pagefilling rehash of boxing matches. Very little of what has made this a great series of stories. I hope he gets back to work! Mt leastfavorite Berk book so far.

Goodreads review by Larry on November 16, 2022

I can’t quite believe that I listen to this book in the audible format just over a year ago and I didn’t remember that this is maybe the major way that I came back to Burke in my effort to read or I should say to listen to the entire series in order. I think I was much more observant and eloquent in......more

Goodreads review by Skip on September 18, 2019

The two-year old son of a Saudi prince is grabbed from his armored Rolls in an area where prostitutes work, with the prince left immobilized by a drug injection. The mysterious Pryce, a shadowy government cut-out is asked to find the toddler, but is completely stumped so he moves an severely injured......more

Goodreads review by Kirque on May 13, 2009

I'm giving the 5 stars to the entire series which I found in the early 1990s. Vachss is a totally honest writer - he writes what he knows: and he knows about the children that society and the legal system designed to 'protect' that doesn't protect at all, and the monstrous evil predators that prey o......more

Goodreads review by Ian on March 11, 2019

The final book in the Burke series, given Vachss skills as an author and his obsessions that are well discussed elsewhere, more of the same in terms of subject matter is no surprise. To be honest he really is getting far too preachy via the voice of Burke, and close to tipping over into way too much......more

Goodreads review by Bob on January 08, 2009

It was tough getting this book as I knew that it would be the last in the Burke series, a series that has helped me both as a fledgling writer and at a deeper, personal level. But it went far beyond what I expected. I don't what to toss any spoilers in here but I will tell you that you find out a lo......more

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