Choice of Evil, Andrew Vachss
Choice of Evil, Andrew Vachss
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Choice of Evil

Author: Andrew Vachss

Narrator: Phil Gigante

Unabridged: 9 hr 31 min

Format: Digital Audiobook (DRM Protected)

Published: 10/29/2010

Synopsis

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. But someone beats him to the task: a shadowy killer who calls himself Homo Erectus and who seems determined to wipe gay bashers from the face of the earth. As the killer’s body count rises, most citizens are horrified, but a few see him as a hero, and they hire Burke to track him down . . . and help him escape. In Choice of Evil, Burke is forced to confront his most harrowing challenge: the mind of an obsessive serial killer. And soon the emotionally void method behind the killer’s madness becomes terrifyingly familiar, reminding Burke of his childhood partner, Wesley, the ice-man assassin who never missed, even when the target was himself. Has Wesley come back from the dead? The whisper-stream says so. And the truth may just challenge Burke’s very sense of reality. “Choice of Evil is Vachss’s darkest Burke yet, exploring man’s propensity for savagery, ice-cold cunning and wearing thin the limits of sanity.” — The Clarion-Ledger “There is no other living American author with prose as razor-clean as Andrew Vachss. . . . Vachss is a Zen warrior with a pen.” — Coast Weekly

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 Larry

I continue to retrace this 18 book series via the audible medium nine and 10 years after my first encounter with Mr. Burke. I continue to be surprised that the pedophile aspect of this series seems to maintain a fairly secondary role in spite of it standing out in my memories. This book emphasizes t......more

Goodreads review by Skip

Burke gets him with a one-two combo at the beginning of this 11th book in the series: his illegal apartment is raided by the cops (as his landlord thought Burke was responsible for his son's death) and then his newest girlfriend is killed -- collateral damage in a shooting spree at a gay rights rall......more

Goodreads review by Susanne

Author Vachss died recently and the obituary was intriguing enough for me to hunt up one of his books and have a look. Not my cup of tea exactly: a head-spinning narrative about a 'family' of stone-cold anti-heroes who all have bold nicknames (men and women both) plus near super-human abilities to s......more

Goodreads review by Ian

This is actually a little difficult to assign a star rating. On the one hand Vachss' writing has become so streamlined that even long time fans might find this book getting a little bit difficult to follow, and the reader is assumed to know huge amounts of backstory from the previous ten books in or......more

Goodreads review by Eric

Diverging a bit from the typical Burke story, this doesn't succeed with me. What starts out as one story line veers off in an altogether different direction, which left me a bit confused as to where it was going. Vachss did eventually tie it all together, but it seemed like he just mashed up two boo......more

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