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Everybody Pays: Stories
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Vachss is widely recognized for his dark, New York City^-based Burke crime novels in which the sometime criminal and his cadre of vigilantes battle those who exploit women and children. Justice in Burke's world is never meted out by officialdom, but by a Solomon-like street code set in motion by Burke. These short stories mostly deal with the same theme, though there are some in which we see the world through the eyes of the criminal. Vachss, a lawyer who works as an advocate for abused women and children, clearly believes most abusers and killers are made not born. Stories such as "Homeless" , "Dress Up Day" (with an eerie Columbine angle), and "Last Date" all reflect that view. Mixed in are some science fiction, a little fantasy, and a novella, "Everybody Pays" , in which an abuser meets a just end in typically Vachssian style. Some of the pieces work better than others, but all are unmistakably Vachss and will attract his sizable audience. Wes Lukowsky
From Kirkus Reviews
Nobody's earned the right to more attitude than Vachss, a former social services caseworker and prisoner director whose legal clientele is restricted to children. But his swaggering, strutting novels (Choice of Evil, p. 481, etc.) often seem to revel in the catalogue of unwholesome horrors his macho heroes avenge. Vachss' stripped-down, pumped-up prose shows to better advantage in a good half of these 38 stories, since the unspeakable revelations tend to cut off the heat just as the pot is about to boil over. There's room for some hard-won tenderness, too, in stories like ``Proving It'' (a released convict's not-exactly-romantic reunion) and ``True Colors'' (how far will a gang-banger go for his girl?). The four stories about Cross, the Chicago crew chief who always delivers because he has no higher loyalty than the job at hand, are a suitably tough counterweight, along with the title novella, in which Cross and his crew contract to rescue a young woman from a Latin American prison (think Mission: Impossible with a sideshow cast and a body count through the roof). Only the ``Underground'' stories, which wallow in the unspeakable details of child-abuse hell, go over the topor, maybe more accurately, under the bottom. -- Copyright ©1999, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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This collection is as good as, if not better than, his first collection-BORN BAD. But to fully understand this collection, read the first. They have the same themes, the same prose, and the same settings.
The Underground series focuses on tribalism of the human species in a not too distant future. Sci-fi isn't really Mr. Vachss strong suit. But dialogue and description are. Everything contained herein is shredded down to it's bare meaning. Other authors write dialogue. Mr. Vachss transcribes it. He's heard it, he's said it. Some of it's even been cursed at him.
The absolute jewel in this book, however, is the CROSS novella. Having difficulty in publishing a CROSS novel on it's own, this is the perfect setting to unveil exactly what these characters are about. Enough teasers in the lean, stabbing prose of the short stories lead into the novella. Which finally gives enough room for Cross and his crew to breathe and infiltrate into you. I had to read it twice in the same sitting, just because I wanted to read more of Cross. A character you shouldn't even like to read ABOUT much less like.
I'm now eagerly awaiting the full novel about CROSS and crew in their own series (or mini-series of books).
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I become to like Vachss' Collections better than his novels. This one is even better than born bad, thanks to a complete Cross Novel and some disturbing tales. The sci-fi stories are not as well as in Born Bad, but occupy less space. If you've read one, only one of the stories in this book, you'll want to read all his books. Be warned.
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I have seen the future of short crime fiction and it (he) is Andrew Vachss. Like a series of rabbit punches to the solar plexis, these stories cut to the chase and leave you breathless. Especially good are the underground stories and the Cross material. If you like Vachss, you will love this stuff - if uninitiated, this is a great place to jump on. Stop dawdling and buy the freaking book!
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Hot Knife silvered with lethal butter
There is not too much I wish to say except these stories take the tradion of the short story to a new height, then depth. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 7. November 1999 veröffentlicht
Everybody Pays, proves it.
I may not be a professional reviewer, and for those of you reading this, let me assure you that can be a good thing. I actually READ the book. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 27. September 1999 veröffentlicht
A short, sharp blade
Andrew Vachss is a decent novelist. Decent meaning that for his books, it is the content that draws the reader in and makes you hang on. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 23. September 1999 veröffentlicht
PACKED WITH ACTION, BRIMMING WITH TRUTH
Everybody Pays is exactly the kind of book you wish your best pal would get you before everyone else starts buzzing. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 21. September 1999 veröffentlicht
EVERYBODY PAYS Proves Vachss' Storytelling Powers
This new short story collection offers a wonderful counterpoint to Vachss' novels, which chronicle the life of his on-the-edge PI character, Burke. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 16. September 1999 veröffentlicht
VACHSS' STORIES MUST NOT BE MISSED!
Andrew Vachss' shorter works are absolute gems: compact and perfectly formed. They are variously chilling, or romantic, or warm with tender humor, but each one packs a... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 16. September 1999 veröffentlicht
Hardcore for the hardboiled
EVERYBODY PAYS is the perfect starting point for fans of true crime, action, thrilling suspense filled drama, romance, and the honor driven double cross. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 29. August 1999 veröffentlicht
Vachss'short fiction as remedy to veil of maya
The veil of maya, a Hindu precept/concept that bespeaks the *veil* or gauze that the unenlightened see out of, into the world, not the world as it in its true form is, but the... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 13. Juli 1999 veröffentlicht
THUNDERSTRUCK, grateful beyond the shadows of the moon...
FORTY TWO STARS: I'm still on the first page so unable to be too specific but once again, Mr. Vachss has given us something that is beyond what it seems. For many of us, Mr. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 30. Juni 1999 veröffentlicht
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