Andrew Vachss

Vachss has reinvented detective fiction and, in the person of Burke, his haunted, hell-ridden P.I., has given listeners a new kind of hero....

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.....

Andrew Vachss’s implacable private eye has a new client, Strega. She wants Burke to find an obscene photograph and that search will take him into the ocean that flows just beneath the city....

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....

Burke is back, but still lurking in the shadows, unable to return home....

The former shot-caller of the country's most feared white supremacist prison gang contacts Burke....

A pulse-quickening new crime novel featuring Burke, ex-con, private investigator, and rumored hit man....

Burke is given a purse full of dirty money to find the infamous Ghost Van that is cutting a lethal swath among teenage prostitutes....

What — or who — could turn a gifted little boy into a murderous thing that calls itself "Satan’s Child"....

Burke finds himself working the other side of the street, where guilt and innocence are as disposable as the sheets in a Times Square hotel....

For years Burke has harbored an outlaw's hard love for Wolfe, the beautiful, driven former sex-crimes prosecutor who was fired for refusing to "go along to get along...."

Career criminal Burke’s skill at working the feathery edges of the law are legendary, and this isn’t the first time he’s been hired to trade cash for an abducted kid....

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....

From the author of the acclaimed Burke private-eye series comes an ambitious and chilling novel that shows us not only what evil is, but where it comes from.....

In this mercilessly compelling thriller, Burke — the private eye, sting artist, and occasional hit man who metes out a cruelly ingenious vengeance on those who victimize children .....

In the figure of Burke, Andrew Vachss has given contemporary crime fiction one of its most mesmerizing characters....

While doing extended time for killing a fellow prisoner, Wesley meets Carmine Trentoni in a New York state prison....

They meet in a no-name diner. A shadowy man hands Burke a CD dossier of someone he wants found....

The acclaimed and ground breaking collection of short stories, poetry, and allegory by Andrew Vachss, one of the most powerful voices in the field of child protection....

When his girlfriend, Crystal Beth, is gunned down at a gay rights rally in Central Park, Burke, the underground man-for-hire and expert hunter of predators, vows vengeance....