Down in the Zero |
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| Author:
| Vachss, Andrew |
| Series title: | Burke Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-679-76066-5 |
| Publication Date: | Jul 1995 |
| Publisher: | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
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| Imprint: | Vintage Crime/Black Lizard |
| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $17.00 |
Book Description:
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nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;Andrew Vachss has reinvented detective fiction for an age in which guilty secrets are obsolete and murdernbsp;isn't even worth a news headline. And in the person of his haunted, hell-ridden private eye Burke, Vachss has given us anbsp;new kind of hero: a man inured to every evil except the kind that preys on children.nbsp; nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;Now Burke is back, investigating an epidemic of apparent suicides among teenagers of a wealthy Connecticut suburb.nbsp; There...
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nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;Andrew Vachss has reinvented detective fiction for an age in which guilty secrets are obsolete and murdernbsp;isn't even worth a news headline. And in the person of his haunted, hell-ridden private eye Burke, Vachss has given us anbsp;new kind of hero: a man inured to every evil except the kind that preys on children.nbsp;
nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;Now Burke is back, investigating an epidemic of apparent suicides among teenagers of a wealthy Connecticut suburb.nbsp; There he discovers a sinister connection between the anguish of the young and the activities of an elite sadomasochistic underground, for whom pan and its accompanying rituals are a source of pleasure--and power