Mask Market, Andrew Vachss
Mask Market, Andrew Vachss
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Mask Market

Author: Andrew Vachss

Narrator: David Joe Wirth

Unabridged: 6 hr 25 min

Format: Digital Audiobook (DRM Protected)

Published: 08/15/2006

Synopsis

They meet in a no-name diner. A shadowy man hands Burke a CD dossier of someone he wants found. Minutes later, as Burke watches from an alley, his client is gunned down by a professional hunter-killer team. Burke slips away, unsure if he’s been spotted. Later, when he examines the dossier, he discovers that the missing woman is Beryl Preston, a girl he’d rescued from a brutal pimp twenty years earlier—when she was only thirteen—and returned to her father.Now he has to find her again—not only because she might be in danger, but also because he has to prove to himself that his rescue mission hadn’t been financed by a predator who wanted his “property” returned. His search will force him to confront a new kind of human ugliness and, finally, to practice the survivalist triage that has marked—and cursed—his life since childhood. In Mask Market, Burke the outlaw investigator finds himself searching for the truth: not only about a girl named Beryl, but also about himself.This is classic Burke: dark, dangerous, and galvanizing, from the opening scene to the explosive climax.

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

AudiobooksNow review by Shelly on 2009-03-24 17:08:28

His client gets killed before he gets paid, but it doesn't stop Burke. Gritty, hard, and unbelievable... Burke ovecomes.

Goodreads review by Skip on July 08, 2019

The weakest book in the series -- you can check the GR ratings. Burke agrees to meet a guy in a bar, who wants him to track someone down; however, the guy is gunned down when he goes to get Burke's retainer, making Burke wonder whether they were after him. Vachss then spends the rest of the first ha......more

Goodreads review by Ian on February 05, 2019

The 16th in the Burke series by Andrew Vachss. Other reviews of these books are interesting. I think you need to have read the series from the start, because people who come to this as their first exposure (and others in the series) really seem to react negatively. I suspect you need to get into the......more

Goodreads review by Larry on October 21, 2022

it’s interesting that this is the first Burke book that I read and it led to me buying most of the series as used books (and I am still trying to sell some of those on eBay) and reading the entire series of 18 books. this has got to be one of the weirder books. And once again Burke is pretending he......more

Goodreads review by Herb on March 10, 2017

Starting on the 16th book of a series is not the best way to introduce yourself to the writer and his characters. I need to read some of the earlier stories to fully understand how I feel about this book. It's like stumbling upon two people engaged in a conversation covering past events and inside j......more

Goodreads review by Colleen on October 05, 2011

Haven't read Vachss in years, since about the first 6-7 books, which were so dark and depressing, although gripping. This one is gripping, but much less of a downer. Vachss hasn't lost his crisp writing at all.......more

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