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1) Drawing dead
Author
Series
Cross series volume 5
Publisher
Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"The man known only as Cross and his skilled team of urban mercenaries are back (Blackjack, Urban Renewal), but this time they are on the defensive as they receive a series of cryptic messages. The question is, are they being warned or hunted? A VINTAGE CRIME/BLACK LIZARD ORIGINAL. Chicago the reigning number one city in homicides has no shortage of deadly gangs. They all know the Cross Crew occupies a cinderblock bunker called Red 71, and it's the...
Author
Series
Publisher
Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"The man known only as Cross and his multi-skilled team of urban mercenaries are back, this time invading one of Chicago's least desirable neighborhoods in a land-grab that has the entire underworld puzzled. Chicago--the reigning #1 city in homicides--has no shortage of deadly gangs. They all know the Cross Crew occupies a cinderblock bunker called Red 71 . . . the last place you want to go, unless you're willing to risk it being the last place you...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Becoming Carmine Trentoni's hitman after emerging from prison, Wesley locates Pet and the two set up shop in Brooklyn, executing their assignments with finesse -- and occasionally, more explosives than are strictly called for. But Wesley isn't satisfied with his low-profile lot, and sets out to make a mark on the city that everyone will notice
Author
Series
Cross series volume 3
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Tracking a murderer who has been committing grisly killings throughout the world, Cross and his mercenary teammates are hired by shadowy government operatives to bring in the elusive hunter alive, a goal that is aided by the discovery of a pattern in the killer's targets
Author
Series
Burke novels volume 7
Publisher
Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
1994
Language
English
Description
A rash of suicides among wealthy teenagers in a Connecticut town is the subject of an investigation by PI Burke. To solve the case he is forced to play the stud, endearing himself to a housewife who runs a secret porn ring. By the author of Shella.
Author
Series
Burke novels volume 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
PI Burke, New York's avenging angel, is asked by a policewoman to clear the name of her boyfriend, jailed for murder. She claims he was framed by a psychopathic policeman who is also out to get Burke. To Burke, it all sounds "treacherous bad," but he takes the case anyway.
Author
Series
Aftershock novels (Andrew H. Vachss) volume 2
Publisher
Pantheon
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Just before daybreak, a body washes up on a pristine beach. The dead man's skull has been bashed open, and his upper body is covered in neo-Nazi tattoos. An anonymous photographer e-mails an image of the scene to the local news, spurring the police to instantaneous response. Searching for suspects at one of the town's "homeless-by-choice" encampments, the cops pick up Homer, a "walking wounded" schizophrenic, who has been showing off a wristwatch...
8) Down here
Author
Series
Burke novels volume 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a colleague is charged with the murder of a serial rapist, Burke uncovers numerous questionable dealings at the district attorney's office and elects to reopen the original investigation into the rapist's case.
9) Flood
Author
Series
Burke novel volume 01
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
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. She wants Burke to find a monster for her - so she can kill him with her bare hands. In this thriller, Andrew Vachss's renegade private eye teams up with a lethally gifted avenger to follow a child's murderer through the catacombs of New York, where every alley is blind and the penthouses are...
10) Only child
Author
Series
Burke novels volume 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
Returning to New York after years on the run, Burke is forced to step out of the shadows to investigate the murder of his own teenage daughter, and heads for Long Island, where he comes face to face with a depraved killer.
11) Carbon
Author
Publisher
Haverhill House Publishing
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"In The City, government is god -- in The Sector, anarchy rules. The Membrane stands between those worlds. Some cross it to The Sector, seeking the forbidden. Some cross it to The City, seeking a chance to see the sky. Some try to stay. Most die trying. In a world without paper, names are earned. Sector-born, Carbon has been forged by his life, and violence became his only credential. Knowing his life expectancy, Carbon risked everything for a chance...
12) Choice of evil
Author
Series
Burke novels volume 11
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
An avenger makes his appearance in New York, killing gay-bashers. The police want to arrest him, but others want to help him and they hire PI Burke to find the man.
13) Dead and gone
Author
Series
Burke novels volume 12
Publisher
Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
Burke is left for dead after a ransom drop goes bad. His quest for revenge leads him to Chicago, the Pacific Northwest, and a Russian-speaking Cambodian woman named Gem.
14) Strega: a novel
Author
Series
Burke novels volume 2
Publisher
Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
1987
Language
English
Description
Burke is hired by a Mafia don's niece to find a child pornography ring.
15) Pain management
Author
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
Following a failed assassination attempt, "career criminal and ultimate urban survivalist" Burke moves to the Pacific Northwest and takes on the task of tracking down a runaway teenager "in a long, dark tunnel of lies--lined with more games than players."--Jacket.
16) Blossom: a novel
Author
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
1990
Language
English
Description
An old cellmate has summoned Burke to a fading Indiana mill town, where a young boy is charged with a crime he didn't commit and a twisted serial sniper has turned a local lover's lane into a killing field. It's here that Burke meets Blossom, the brilliant, beautiful young woman who has he own reasons for finding the murderer--and her own idea of vengeance.
Author
Series
Burke novels volume 6
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1991
Language
English
Description
Burke, an urban mercenary with a passion for protecting children, goes in search of the people who turned a boy into a killer.
18) Hard candy
Author
Series
Burke novel volume 04
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
1995, ©1989
Language
English
Description
P.I. Burke gets unwillingly advertised as a gun-for-hire and pressure from the police and the Mafia, but decides to rescue a young girl from the dangers of a "safe house" for teenagers.
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