The Weight, Andrew Vachss
The Weight, Andrew Vachss
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The Weight

Author: Andrew Vachss

Narrator: Buck Schirner

Unabridged: 7 hr 57 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Published: 11/09/2010


Synopsis

Andrew Vachss returns with a mesmerizing novel about a hard-core thief who’s about to embark on a job that will alter his life forever.Sugar is that rarest of commodities: an old-school professional thief, tough and loyal as a pit bull, packing 255 pounds of muscle. When he’s picked out of a photo array in a vicious rape case, the cops find his apartment empty. A stakeout catches Sugar when he returns...carrying a loaded pistol. The sex-crime cops get nothing from their interrogation, but a streetwise detective figures out why Sugar offers no alibi: at the time of the rape, a holiday-weekend break-in job was being pulled at a jewelry store. The DA offers Sugar two options: give up his partners in the jewelry heist and walk, or plead to the rape he didn’t commit—and he’ll toss in the gun charge. For Sugar, that’s not two options; he takes the weight.When Sugar finishes his time, his money is waiting for him, held by Solly, the mastermind behind the jewelry heist. But Solly tells Sugar that one of the heist crew was actually sent by another planner—and that planner has just died. In Sugar’s world, all loose threads must be cut. He suspects that there’s more to this job than what Solly is telling him. But nothing he suspects or imagines can prepare him for what he finds....

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 Eddie

Great pacing. Great characters. Great dialogue. Cool story.......more

Goodreads review by Trish

A classic Vachss story on the theme of honor and pride among thieves and thievery as a lifestyle, as many of his other books have also been about. It's an interesting idea when one considers that on a personal level "thievery" is situational morality that's defined by whether one is the thief or the......more

Goodreads review by Dylan

This would be a great short story. Streamline it by cutting away plot threads that go nowhere then take the time for the elaborate schemes to make better sense and expand on a few things discussed but never seen and it's solid. Otherwise I've got short novel that somehow reads too long with a vibe t......more

Goodreads review by Mydonna

The central character and narrator of THE WEIGHT is Tim "Sugar" Caine, an old-school professional thief who follows a strict set of rules that include doing only jobs arranged through his "planner", Solly. How he handles his prison time, his reflections while inside on previous incarceration and the......more

Goodreads review by Ash

This book follows Sugar, a thief who was arrested for a crime he didn't commit. I'll be honest, that plus Andrew Vachss as the author sold me on the book. Sugar is a much more healthy version of Burke - which isn't saying much - but this whole book has a very different feel, a little lighter while st......more