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Burke is one of the most cold-blooded yet strangely honorable heroes in the history of crime fiction, an outlaw who makes his living by preying on the most vicious of New York City's bottom-feeders, those who thrive on the suffering of children. In Andrew Vachss's tautly engrossing novel Burke is given a purse full of dirty money to find the infamous Ghost Van that is cutting a lethal swath among the teenage prostitutes in the hood. He also gets help in the form of a stripper named Belle, whose moves on the runway are outclassed only by what she can do in a getaway car. But not even Burke is prepared for the evil that is behind the Ghost Van or for the sheer menace of its guardian, a cadaverous karate expert who enjoys killing so much that he has named himself after death. A book so ferocious, with characters so venal and actions so breakneck, that you dare not get in the way...
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Blue Belle, Vachss Andrew H.
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- Released
- 1989
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- Title
- Blue Belle
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Vachss Andrew H.
- Publisher
- Pan Books
- Released
- 1989
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 336
- ISBN13
- 9780330308809
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Historical Themes, Mystery & Thriller, Nature, Mystery Novels, Animals, Love, Thriller, USA, American Literature, 20th century, Detective Fiction, Death, Series, Detective, Dogs, New York, Violence, Historical Mystery, Noir, Mafia, Brothers, Lawyers
- Rating
- 4.1 out of 5
- Description
- Burke is one of the most cold-blooded yet strangely honorable heroes in the history of crime fiction, an outlaw who makes his living by preying on the most vicious of New York City's bottom-feeders, those who thrive on the suffering of children. In Andrew Vachss's tautly engrossing novel Burke is given a purse full of dirty money to find the infamous Ghost Van that is cutting a lethal swath among the teenage prostitutes in the hood. He also gets help in the form of a stripper named Belle, whose moves on the runway are outclassed only by what she can do in a getaway car. But not even Burke is prepared for the evil that is behind the Ghost Van or for the sheer menace of its guardian, a cadaverous karate expert who enjoys killing so much that he has named himself after death. A book so ferocious, with characters so venal and actions so breakneck, that you dare not get in the way...