Safe House, Andrew Vachss
Safe House, Andrew Vachss
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Safe House

Author: Andrew Vachss

Narrator: Phil Gigante

Unabridged: 8 hr 49 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Published: 10/29/2010

Synopsis

In Burke, Andrew Vachss gave readers of crime fiction a hero they could believe in, an avenger whose sense of justice was forged behind bars and tempered on New York’s meanest streets. In this blistering thriller, Burke is drawn into his ugliest case yet, one that involves an underground network of abused women and the sleekly ingenious stalkers who’ve marked them as their personal victims. Burke’s client is Crystal Beth, a beautiful outlaw with a tattoo on her face and a mission burned into her heart. She’s trying to shield one of her charges from a vengeful ex with fetishes for Nazism and torture. But the stalker has a protector, someone so informed, so ruthless, and so connected that he need only make a few phone calls to shut down Crystal Beth’s operation for good — and Burke along with it. Sinuous in its complexities, brutal in its momentum, Safe House is Burke at the edge of his nerve and cunning. And it’s Vachss at the peak of his form. “Scorching . . . the prose is accomplished, stylized and flinty; the plot is direct and commanding.” — Seattle Times “Vachss’s reverence for storytelling is evident in the blunt beauty of his language.” — Chicago Sun-Times

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 on January 21, 2019

Safe Houseblends the white-supremacist movement with the societal problems of stalking and spousal abuse. In order to rescue an old jailhouse friend (Hercules), who accidentally kills a man he has been hired by Crystal Beth to scare off abusing a battered woman, Burke and his crew get involved with......more

Goodreads review by Larry on October 01, 2022

Here I still am about 10 years later going through this series for the second time, this time with the use of e-book and audible book. It is interesting that now that I am more than halfway through the series for the second time, I am aware that the author really covers a lot of territory outside of......more

Goodreads review by Alex on June 24, 2024

In the tenth book in Vachss’s exemplary Burke series, an old friend calls in a favour that could get his whole Family blown away. Literally. These books only continue to get better in my opinion. With each successive book, we get a closer look into the Burke character. He continues to reveal more of......more

Goodreads review by David on August 17, 2024

Safe House (Burke #10) by Andrew Vachss (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard 1988) (Fiction - Mystery). This is one of the better books from the Burke series. This one features Crystal Beth as a native American girlfriend; the bad guys are Nazis and stalkers. My rating: 6/10, finished 6/8/11. [[Reread 8/5/24]]......more

Goodreads review by Mikel on August 09, 2021

I've read many Vachss Burke novels and while I like them, part of me finds the overly paranoid, hardboiled attitude of Burke to be a bit silly. It's been many years since I've read a Burke novel and with Safe House that feeling that these books read more like a parody of crime fiction only increases......more

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