Down in the Zero, Andrew Vachss
Down in the Zero, Andrew Vachss
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Down in the Zero

Author: Andrew Vachss

Narrator: Phil Gigante

Unabridged: 7 hr 44 min

Format: Digital Audiobook (DRM Protected)

Published: 07/06/2010

Synopsis

Andrew Vachss has reinvented detective fiction for an age in which guilty secrets are obsolete and murder isn't even worth a news headline. And in the person of his haunted, hell-ridden private eye Burke, Vachss has given us a new kind of hero: a man inured to every evil except the kind that preys on children. Now Burke is back, investigating an epidemic of apparent suicides among the teenagers of a wealthy Connecticut suburb. There he discovers a sinister connection between the anguish of the young and the activities of an elite sadomasochistic underground, for whom pain and its accompanying rituals are a source of pleasure and power. "[Vachss's] short sharp sentences crackle with energy; his plots are satisfyingly elaborate; the narratives are beautifully paced, and the characters . . . are always pungently individual." — Chicago Sun-Times "The characters and events are as sharply defined as if they were etched in steel. The prose is short and choppy, like the ticking of a time bomb about to explode." — Seattle Post-Intelligencer

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 Skip on September 29, 2018

The weakest book so far in the Burke series. An old friend's 19-year old (?) son (Randy) calls Burke in a panic because there is an epidemic of suicides among his rich crowd in suburban Connecticut. Owing Randy's mother a favor and passing the Prof's legit test, Burke masquerades at the caretaker si......more

Goodreads review by Thomas on December 18, 2015

Vachss writing style is not for me really. I got this and another one at a used books store a long time ago, but sent them both off to someone wanting after finishing this. Hard and brutal, but not terribly engaging. There is fierce competition in crime writing and so I select carefully who to follo......more

Goodreads review by Larry on September 19, 2022

As I continue to go through this 18 book series that I first read about 10 years ago, I learned that Andrew Vachss died last year at the age of 79. I felt some thing of a loss but mostly disappointed that I had not heard about it at the time it happened. I guess he was just not quite that famous! I......more

Goodreads review by Eric_W on February 04, 2009

Burke, Vachss' anti-hero, is a quasi-detective, part vigilante, who has a soft spot for protecting children. We learn during the course of the novel that he grew up in an orphanage, has no memory of either parent, has served time in prison, where he learned much of his "trade" from the "Prof" who sp......more

Goodreads review by Tim on December 18, 2011

I happen to like Andrew Vachss very much. Burke is his own man, a unique individual who isn't someone with whom anyone can really identify. His world is peopled by characters as disparate as the invisible rejects and crazies who are all around us in any city these days, and somehow as connected and......more

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