Dead and Gone, Andrew Vachss
Dead and Gone, Andrew Vachss
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Dead and Gone

Author: Andrew Vachss

Narrator: Phil Gigante

Unabridged: 10 hr 50 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Published: 12/29/2010


Synopsis

Career criminal Burke’s skill at working the feathery edges of the law are legendary, and this isn’t the first time he’s been hired to trade cash for an abducted kid. But when the meet turns out to be an ambush, Burke’s partner is killed and he’s left for dead. Dumped on the steps of the ER, Burke hovers between life and death. While the police — and whoever wants him dead — are circling closer, biding their time. Burke escapes the hospital, his face forever changed by the surgery that saved his life. The whisper-stream mutters that he’s dead, and he certainly is gone. From New York, anyway. Burke is on the hunt, knowing he has to find whoever wanted him dead to protect his own life. And avenge his partner. Unable to call on his own family for assistance, Burke goes into his past for help. All the way back. All the way back to his origins as a “child of the secret.” The trail starts in Chicago, continues into the Pacific Northwest, then to the remote mountains of New Mexico. And ends in a place that exists only in the dreams of the darkest degenerates on earth.

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

Goodreads review by Skip

Burke survives an assassination attempt but not without some significant injuries, one eye lost and significant facial injuries, and the loss of a beloved member of his "family." After months in the hospital, feigning amnesia to the cops, he busts out to seek revenge against the person who set him u......more

Goodreads review by Anita

I always forget why it is I don't like Andrew Vachss novels. I will go years without reading one and then think, "Hey, why don't I read another Vachss novel?" Then I'll read one and remember, "Oh yeah, his endings are always inexplicable and unsatisfying and never seem to tie up a single loose end.......more

Goodreads review by Larry

I can tell by the review that I did actually read this book although as I listened to it in the audible format with help from an e-book, I really had no recollection of ever having read this book before. Nine years has erased this story. Although it is a fairly clever one and one that displays a goo......more

Goodreads review by Harry

What did I think? This guy's the king of "Noir", is what I think. Andrew Vachss, a lawyer and author with a penchant for the welfare of kids and women - especially the kids - has created Burke to let some steam escape. Burke's world is not the world you and I live in. Burke exists in NYC but he is no......more