Hard Candy, Andrew Vachss
Hard Candy, Andrew Vachss
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Hard Candy

Author: Andrew Vachss

Narrator: Phil Gigante

Unabridged: 6 hr 18 min

Format: Digital Audiobook (DRM Protected)

Published: 04/15/2010


Synopsis

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 heat-seeking missile. Written with Vachss's signature narrative overdrive—and his unnerving familiarity with the sub-basement of American crime—Hard Candy is vintage Burke.

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

A prostitute named Candy, who Burke knew from his younger years, asks him to rescue her teenage daughter from a guy named Train. What she is doing there is left unclear, but when Burke finds out the truth he is horrified. Meanwhile, a psycho killer named Wesley is furious that Burke blew up a guy na......more

Goodreads review by brian

our first impression as children is usually what sticks. so, after years spent in manhattan - that vast, multi-personalitied behemoth - it'll always remain somewhat in the vision of death wish: graffiti'd subways, garbage-strewn streets, cracked-out floppy-titted streetwalkers, and roving gangs of d......more

Goodreads review by Josh

Burke, the epitome of a hardman, and vigilante (of sorts) who seeks vengeance on those who victimize the young, is up against a monster with tendencies akin to his own – they both know the rules of the street and how to manipulate lost souls into doing their righteous bidding, the only difference is......more