Andrew Vachss

Burke is given a purse full of dirty money to find the infamous Ghost Van that is cutting a lethal swath among teenage prostitutes....

In this mercilessly compelling thriller, Burke — the private eye, sting artist, and occasional hit man who metes out a cruelly ingenious vengeance on those who victimize children .....

Career criminal Burke’s skill at working the feathery edges of the law are legendary, and this isn’t the first time he’s been hired to trade cash for an abducted kid....

When his girlfriend, Crystal Beth, is gunned down at a gay rights rally in Central Park, Burke, the underground man-for-hire and expert hunter of predators, vows vengeance....

Andrew Vachss’s implacable private eye has a new client, Strega. She wants Burke to find an obscene photograph and that search will take him into the ocean that flows just beneath the city....

In Burke, Andrew Vachss gave readers of crime fiction a hero they could believe in, an avenger whose sense of justice was forged behind bars and tempered on New York’s meanest streets....

Burke is back, but still lurking in the shadows, unable to return home....

From the author of the acclaimed Burke private-eye series comes an ambitious and chilling novel that shows us not only what evil is, but where it comes from.....

Burke finds himself working the other side of the street, where guilt and innocence are as disposable as the sheets in a Times Square hotel....

A pulse-quickening new crime novel featuring Burke, ex-con, private investigator, and rumored hit man....

In the figure of Burke, Andrew Vachss has given contemporary crime fiction one of its most mesmerizing characters....

It’s been years since Burke has been home, years since he’s seen his “family” and worked in the underbelly of New York City.....

With the Prof clinging to life in an underground hospital facility, a man named Pryce shows up to make Burke an offer....

Electrifying, compelling, and ultimately terrifying, Two Trains Running is a galvanizing evocation of that moment in our history when the violent forces that would determine America’s future were just beginning to roil below the surface. Once a devastated mill town, by 1959 Locke City has...

Burke's newest client is a woman named Flood, who has the face of an angel, the body of a high-priced stripper, and the skills of a professional executioner....

For years Burke has harbored an outlaw's hard love for Wolfe, the beautiful, driven former sex-crimes prosecutor who was fired for refusing to "go along to get along...."

While doing extended time for killing a fellow prisoner, Wesley meets Carmine Trentoni in a New York state prison....

Eddie starts stealing cars long before he's old enough to get a license. Driven by a force so compelling that he never questions, just obeys...

The acclaimed and ground breaking collection of short stories, poetry, and allegory by Andrew Vachss, one of the most powerful voices in the field of child protection....

Veil's Visit is an original Hap & Leonard short story co-authored by Joe R. Lansdale and Andrew Vachss, in which Leonard gets taken to court to answer for burning down a crack house....