Flood, Andrew Vachss
Flood, Andrew Vachss
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Flood

Author: Andrew Vachss

Narrator: Christopher Lane

Unabridged: 10 hr 1 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Published: 11/03/2009


Synopsis

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

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 Kemper on September 30, 2015

You say you want a hard-boiled gritty crime novel? Well, you can read Andrew Vachss’s series about Burke, but you better stock up on anti-depressants and be prepared to give up any faith in humanity you might have. Burke is a lot of things. A former mercenary, a scam artist, an ex-convict, and an unl......more

Goodreads review by Cathy on September 03, 2012

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 feeling......more

Goodreads review by Harry on July 30, 2012

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

Goodreads review by Olethros on June 24, 2014

Para intentar corregir algo, primero hay que saber que ese algo está mal. Muy mal.-. Género. Novela. Lo que nos cuenta. Burke, investigador privado al que su experiencia le hace entender la ley como poco más que una sugerencia, es contactado por una mujer poco común que, con intenciones claramente om......more