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Strega: Burke Series, Book 2
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Streetwise and otherwise smart ex-con Burke narrates this second journey ( Flood ) through New York's garish underworld. The tough, unlicensed private investigator and his memorable cohorts work outside the law, but physically hurt only the true scum: street and subway punks, dope dealers and child abusers. With the help of Max the Silent (deaf-mute Chinese muscle), Michelle (fabulous-looking pre-transsexual hooker), Mole (thick-glassed demolition genius), Immaculata (sympathetic Vietnamese psychotherapist), and Pansy (malevolent Italian guard dog), Burke searches for a kiddie porn picture that will salvage the sanity of a cherubic six-year-old boy. This story fairly crackles with intensity, and the TV/p.i.-type narrator fuels the excitement with wry asides, gangster-wary movements, and cautious self-assurances. Great reading. Rex E. Klett, Anson Cty. Lib., Wadesboro, N.C.
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc. -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc. -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.
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"So hard-boiled that it makes Mike Hammer and Sam Spade look like running yolks." —Chicago Sun-Times
"An absolute stunner, the toughest crime novel, and one of the most realistic, any American writer has produced." —The Cleveland Plain Dealer
"It's wonderful. The words leap off the page. The plot is fresh. The principal character is original. The style is as clean as a haiku." —The Washington Post Book World
"A bizarre, fast-paced tour of the criminal psyche.... Has a grim authenticity." —The Philadelphia Inquirer
"An absolute stunner, the toughest crime novel, and one of the most realistic, any American writer has produced." —The Cleveland Plain Dealer
"It's wonderful. The words leap off the page. The plot is fresh. The principal character is original. The style is as clean as a haiku." —The Washington Post Book World
"A bizarre, fast-paced tour of the criminal psyche.... Has a grim authenticity." —The Philadelphia Inquirer
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The opening scene of "Strega," in which Burke stallks a stalker, is as effective as anything he's written. The climax is so good, the rest of the book is almost a letdown. But never fear, beyond the opening Vachss sends Burke in pursuit of the subject closest to his heart, a child being sexually abused. You know that Burke is going to find and confront those responsible. How he gets there, with the help of the "witch" Strega, is well worth the price of admission. This is one of Burke's best adventures.
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I collect Vachss, primarily for political reasons. His newer books would be hard to recommend to readers unfamiliar with the Burke world--stridently and repetitively polemical on the subjects of his crusades. *Strega* is a different breed, however. Second in the Burke series, it has the garrulous narrative quality that Vachss eventually abandoned for a laconic, minimalist prose that often descends into self parody.
You can get the plot elsewhere. It isn't the point. The mob princess who hires Vachss to get back a little boy's soul is one of his best, most fully realized characters, the Strega or witch of the title. From the moment she jogs into the scene to the terrible revelation with which the novel ends, this is her story, and it is a measure of her strength of character that she returns again and again, as the series progresses, her strange, perverse relationship with Burke twisting and shifting.
Vachss' stock characters are wonderful, an 'A' team of society's losers and each of them a gem in the garbage of the New York streets. We cheer them on through each plot. But it is Strega, the wounded snake, who owns the stage when she appears. Read her book.
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Strega, my first Andrew Vachss novel has definitely not been my last. One of the most intriguing and philosophically stimulating authors I've read; a rare find in this genre. Vachss delivers poignant insights into our modern society & human interaction. These insights are woven into an exciting story of good (sort of) vs evil (the vilest), populated with characters more bizarre than even Hiassen creates. There are only few authors about whom you can say 'I'd read anything he/she wrote'- Vachss is one of these.
It is film noir on paper. It IS New York Haiku. It is a delight.
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A tour that you might not want to go on...
In Strega, Mr. Vachss has written one of the great works of modern noir. Many people can find fault with it's depiction of New York's assorted demons (from pimps to child... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 27. November 1997 veröffentlicht
A manual of the truest of evil...
Mr. Vachss has practically written a manual to monsterdom with Strega. As it stands, Strega is a small chapter in true horror--- not just fictional crime. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 6. November 1997 veröffentlicht
Another hard-boiled thriller from Vachss
Andrew Vachss takes the reader on another journey with his well-known cast of characters embroiled in another child pornography ring crime. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 3. Januar 1997 veröffentlicht
The 2nd book in the Burke series
Ex-con Burke is hired by a mob princess for vengeance against
perverted day-care workers who scarred her friend's young son;
soon he finds himself under her spell, and... Lesen Sie weiter...
perverted day-care workers who scarred her friend's young son;
soon he finds himself under her spell, and... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 1. Januar 1997 veröffentlicht
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