Signwave
An Aftershock Novel

Let me begin this review by saying that I'm going to be rereading this book--not in a few months or years, but soon, in the next few days. There is simply too much here to absorb in the kind of one-gulp reading I've given SignWave. As always, Vachss has layered his plot with character development, o......more

Signwave: An Aftershock Novel (Aftershock, #3) by Andrew Vachss (Goodreads Author) The central character, Dell, had a terrible childhood, enlisted in the French Foreign Legion, later became a killer for hire, and is now married to a woman who served in Doctors Without Borders locations. Totally far-fe......more

I think it was Miles Davis who said of Ahmad Jamal that the key to his music was the "space between the notes." He meant that Jamal trusted the listener to fill in the pauses....and the tension came from the fact that the notes didn't always go where you anticipated. Andrew Vachss' "Wave" series is w......more

Dell is former legionnaire, soldier, and assassin. Even that list of past lives doesn't begin to capture his toughness, though his affection for his wife (herself a former battlefield nurse) is very real. She is involved in a community group's attempt to build a dog park on land that it is purchasin......more

I've been an Andrew Vachss fan long enough that I no longer bother reading jacket descriptions. The mere fact of a new book is enough to get me reaching for my wallet. The plots don't really matter--not that they aren't good; Vachss is too much of a craftsman to let that slide. What keeps me coming......more