Mortal Lock

Name: Mortal Lock
Brand: Dreamscape Media
Availability: InStock
Author: Andrew Vachss
ISBN: 9781624065996

Author: Andrew Vachss

Narrator: Phil Gigante and Natalie Ross

Unabridged: 10 hr 9 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLC

Published: 05/07/2013

Categories: Fiction, Short Stories

Synopsis

A hit man stalks his mark at a race track. A sociopath crosses every moral boundary to become a published author. An ex-mercenary obsessively defends his 'perimeter' from a dangerous interloper. A man for hire grudgingly accepts help from a teenage girl to track an online predator. In a dystopian future, young people struggle for survival underground, forming themselves into vicious gangs with only the graffiti of the 'last journalists' accepted as truth. Andrew Vachss collects twenty tight, powerful stories - all from the past decade of his career, including some now published for the first time - along with an original screenplay. Together, they form Mortal Lock, a searing portrait of the criminal underworld, with both its depravity and humanity on display.

About Andrew Vachss

Andrew Vachss is a lawyer who represents children and youths exclusively. His many books include the Burke series and two collections of short stories, and his work has appeared in Parade, Antaeus, 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 David on August 19, 2024

Mortal Lock by Andrew Vachss (Vintage Crime / Black Lizard 2013) (Fiction). Here is another page-turner by Andrew Vachss, who is one of the best crime writers on the planet. This is a collection of twenty short stories and an original screenplay. Vachss' imagination is truly vast; many of the short......more

Goodreads review by Jayne on April 11, 2025

3.5. I was ready to give this book a 4.5-5 until I hit the last story, which is incredibly long, incredibly boring.......more

Goodreads review by Bill on May 13, 2013

Mortal Lock (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard Original) by Andrew Vachss I had been meaning to read one of the many novels by Andrew Vachss but somehow never got around to actually picking one up. When I saw that this book of his short stories was going to be published in May, I thought that this would be a......more

Goodreads review by Amy on May 04, 2016

I enjoyed the short stories. Written from the perspective of the criminal (as opposed to the usual viewpoint of the law enforcement officer), I thought the author had interesting interpretations of situations often encountered (in books). The collection includes an original screenplay (something I'v......more

Goodreads review by Stewart on June 12, 2013

I love Andrew Vachss. His prose is lean and mean and cuts like a razor. It's so minimal it's almost subliminal. One of these stories--"Savior"--clocks in at a page and a half. But that's all it needs to work its magic. Rounding out the book is a screenplay adapting his "Underground" stories for scre......more