Burke would eat Spade and Marlowe for breakfast, not even spitting out the bones. [He] is one tough, mean, pray-god-you-don't-meet-him...hombre. -Boston Herald A book so ferocious, with characters so venal and actions so breakneck, that you dare not get in the way.... First rate. - Chicago Tribune A tough crime novel that pulls no punches; it places Vachss in the front rank of contemporary American crime writers. -Kansas City Star