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Hard Candy
- A Burke Novel #4
- Narrated by: Phil Gigante
- Series: Burke, Book 4
- Length: 7 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Release date: 04-15-10
- Language: English
- Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Regular price: $20.99
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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 - is up against a soft-spoken messiah who may be rescuing runaways or recruiting them for his own hideous purposes. But in doing so, Burke becomes a target for an entire Mafia family, a whore with a heart of cyanide, and a contract killer as implacable as a heart-seeking missile. Written with Vachss' signature narrative overdrive - and with his unnerving familiarity with the sub-basement of American crime - Hard Candy is vintage Burke.
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- Carl
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- 10-10-14
Still great to listen to again...
I received this book back in 1991 in a care package while deployed in the military. Vachss writing style hooked me from the first few paragraphs, and I reread the book a second time immediately when finished.
Fast forward to now, and listening brought old memories and new feelings for Hard Candy. Phil Gigante does a superb job reading. He is right on voice acting wise, in my opinion with each character. Amazing work on a great book.
As a side note, not for the squeamish at heart.