ANDREW VACHSS is a lawyer who represents children and youths exclusively. His many books include the Burke series and three collections of short stories. His novels have been translated into twenty languages, and his work has appeared in Parade, Antaeus, Esquire, Playboy, and The New York Times, among other publications.
Praise for Andrew Vachss and SignWave Vachss seems bottomlessly knowledgeable about the depth and variety of human twistedness. The New York Times Vachss s writing is like a dark rollercoaster ride of fear, love, and hate. The Times-Picayune An extended meditation on what Dell aptly calls the zen of violence . . . . Fans of the series will lose sleep. Kirkus Reviews Entertaining. . . . Lots of assassin lessons and killing lore make turning the pages a learning experience in the dark arts as much as a riveting read. Publishers Weekly [Vachss] writes a hypnotically violent prose made up of equal parts of broken concrete block and razor wire. Chicago Sun-Times To read Andrews Vachss at his best isto take a ride on the dark side, where the plight of theoppressed and vulnerable . . . becomes the catalyst for revenge-fueled street justice. Los Angeles Times Andrew Vachss is unique among modern writers; no one else comes close to the raw power and intellectual ambiguity that he manifests so elegantly, so coldly. The Clarion-Ledger There is no other living American author with prose as razor-clean as Andrew Vachss, and there is no other writer willing to go so far into such dark extremes, either. When Vachss turns the juice on, the bad guys sizzle. The Austin Chronicle Vachss is red-hot and as serious as a punctured lung. Playboy There s no way toputa [Vachss book]downonce you ve begun. . . . The one-liners pierce like bullets. Detroit Free Press Vachss explores the horrific intersection of victims and victimizers, evil and avengers. The setting has moved from urban to small-town, but the eternal conflict is as it ever was. Booklist Razor-edged and compulsively readable; the pages fly by. Library Journal Vachss impresses again with his new dark and compelling thriller. Largehearted Boy.com Many writers try to cover the same ground as Vachss. A handful are as good. None are better. People