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Sacrifice: Burke Series, Book 6
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A routine sixth outing for Vachss's dark knight Burke--that is, a bitter cup overflowing with satanic child-rape, multiple personality disorder, voodoo, execution-murders, and other workaday hazards of the ``outlaw'' p.i.'s ever-more bleak--and vengeful--Gotham half-life. Back from a series-freshening trip to Indiana (Blossom, 1990), Burke again surrounds himself with series regulars (martial-arts master Max the Silent, electronic wizard Mole, etc.) who play Robin to his Batman as he again takes on child abusers--attorney Vachss's legal foes in real life. What is missing is the sort of strong heroine (Flood, Blue Belle, etc.) who in the past has grounded Burke's high-voltage vigilantism; here, Burke's main female companionship is provided by a prostitute--representative of the sort of nasty turns that dominate the novel, which opens with Burke posing as a blind man to nail a ``freak''--a child abuser. Soon, bigger prey beckons: a child-porn ring with satanic trappings whose grim abuse has made a multiple personality of one eight-year-old Luke, with one of the personalities a stone killer. A crusading D.A. wants to try Luke for murder, but Burke persuades her to go after the cult--a decision that, coupled with his work on another case, sweeps him into a netherworld inhabited by, among others, a wealthy pedophile, a demented counterfeiter, a slick gun-runner, and an alluring voodoo queen. The brutal action is slightly sweetened by Burke's tutelage of a young, personable gangster, and significantly soured by his self-pitying running commentary (``I live under the darkness, where it's safe. Safe from things so secret that they have no name'')--and explodes in a merciless mass-killing by Burke of the cult, blood-revenge for his own sufferings as a child. Vachss still writes a mean page, full of sound and fury; but his spike-hard prose and action are blunted by a moralism that smugly sets Burke up as the most obnoxiously self-righteous--and increasingly one-note--judge, jury, and executioner since Mike Hammer. -- Copyright ©1991, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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"Powerful... mesmerizing in its intensity."- Los Angeles Times
"Vaschss's writing is as gritty as ever... It's doubtful there's another fictional private eye who can summon up in the reader as powerful—and powerfully conflicting—emotions as Burke can."-Newsday
"Vachss is a contemporary master... Decidedly hard-boiled, his prose is as lean, tough-edged and brittle as the man who is his protagonist."- The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
"A harrowing tale in which outcasts are the moral heroes and the people who belong to civilization are corrupt... An absolute original... Andrew Vachss has become a cult favorite, and for good reason."- Cosmopolitan
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Of the Burke novels, *Sacrifice* is a turning point of sorts. Burke's monotone righteousness is here, all right, and Vachss takes his vigilantism into some territory of dubious simplicity. But the apocalyptic battle that ends this novel is nothing like the romantic silliness of *Blue Belle.* Burke oversteps his own code, and the price for his righteousness is almost more than he can bear. The last ten pages of *Sacrifice* reverberate through every novel since.
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This is a very good novel. It is very intense! At the same time the characters come across real vividly and with a lot of depth. It is easy to see and picture them, but like real people, not as easy to understand them. There many layers to each person and they don't always do what you expect, and are often surprising with what they do do. When I first started reading it, I was overwhelmed and a little confused just from the number of characters being quickly introduced, and there were repeated references to characters from previous books that I felt I was missing something. Not with regards to having trouble understanding what this book was about, but that there was a lot of history and a lot more to the characters that I wanted to learn about. It's like meeting an interesting person that you like and then want to get to know better. I want to know these characters better and experience their world. I very much look forward to picking up the novels that I missed and reading them also!
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Vachss shows he has literary guts in this Burke novel,
where our anti-hero is hunting down a cult that preys on
children and trains them for murder. Burke will have to
confront his deepest demons, and question the morals of
his vigilantism in this excellent novel.
where our anti-hero is hunting down a cult that preys on
children and trains them for murder. Burke will have to
confront his deepest demons, and question the morals of
his vigilantism in this excellent novel.
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