Only Child, Andrew Vachss
Only Child, Andrew Vachss
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Only Child

Author: Andrew Vachss

Narrator: Phil Gigante

Unabridged: 7 hr 57 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Published: 02/28/2011

Synopsis

It’s been years since Burke has been home, years since he’s seen his “family” and worked in the underbelly of New York City. Although his appearance has changed, his reputation grown dusty, and his wallet thin, his skills and his crew remain razor sharp. So when he is contacted by a mob boss to investigate the murder of his illegitimate daughter, Vonni, Burke takes the job and begins searching for an unspeakably vicious killer. Posing as a casting director looking for tomorrow’s stars, Burke reaches out to the high school students who knew Vonni, and may know the identity of the killer. Before long he unearths a perverse enterprise — a young director pursuing a brutal new type of cinema vérité. “Only Child is reliable Vachss, another page-ripping underground procedural with harsh relevance and prose that qualifies the real-life children’s lawyer for his own adjective. (Vachssatious?)” —The Seattle Times “The plot is perfect, the investigation is compelling, and the payoff is bittersweet but satisfying.” —The Jacksonville Sun “Vachss’s prose is never less than hypnotic. . . . He’s a master at shedding light on grime and human and urban decay.” —Wilmington News Journal

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 Shelly on 2008-12-15 13:22:48

When Burke teams up with the Mafia to catch a killer you just know some amazing action will ensue. This book delivers just what I have come to expect from Vachss, a look into the horror of what goes on in a child-killer's mind, but with enough twists and turns to keep me turning pages until the end. Bravo!!

Goodreads review by Skip

Burke has finally returned to NY to be with his "family." There is a touching scene early in the book when his is reunited with Flower, who is not fazed by Burke's new, mangled face. However, Burke is running out of money, especially after being set up with a new batcave. After some discussion of ge......more

Goodreads review by Larry

I am continuing my audio reprieve of this Siri‘s using the audible format along with e-book back up. Not quite 10 years later as I am re-experiencing these books, I have to admit that the later books in the series have not remained in my memory. As I am listening to them years later, it is a complet......more

Goodreads review by Raegan

Andrew Vachss is a superb writer and a hell of a human being. I've watched his style evolve from his 1st published novel, FLOOD, to his recent books and his writing just keeps getting better and better. Charles Bukowski once said that the most difficult thing in Art is to create something simple. Va......more

Goodreads review by Ian

I've taken a little break from reading the Burke series, they're all good, but the last two haven't been quite up there as Burke moved out of his comfort zone in the city and stayed elsewhere whilst the people around his old haunts believed him to be dead. Don't get me wrong, Vachss is a writer who'......more

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