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“There’s no way to put a Vachss book down once you’ve begun.”—Detroit Free Press“Vachss’s prose is as taut and street-wise as ever.”—Associated Press“Burke is the hardest, most twisted man in crime and thriller fiction.” —Contra Costa Times“Vachss is just about the toughest of contemporary crime novelists. [He] waves a powerful light across a city landscape that few writers go near and none portray so convincingly.”–Los Angeles Times“The hardest-boiled crime fiction this side of Sing Sing.”–USA Today“Sheer narrative drive is only part of what has kept readers coming back for more. [Burke] is a hero of our times. . . lord of the asphalt jungle.”–The Washington Post Book World“Vachss’s style is as inimitable and passionate as ever.”–Rocky Mountain News“Vachss is a contemporary master.”–The Atlanta Journal-Constitution“Writing in a style so sleekly engineered that it purrs when you pop the hood, Vachss gives such a smooth ride that it’s easy to forget someone is driving.”–The New York Times“Vachss has always been able to make other writers look candy-assed . . . And it’s not because he manages to marry grim idealism to action-driven plots. It’s because of the unflinching way he looks at evil.”–Chicago Reader“Vachss is red hot and as serious as a punctured lung.”–Playboy“The New York Burke inhabits is not borrowed from anybody and shimmers on the page as gaudily and scarily as it does on the street.”–New York
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In this blistering conclusion to the nationally bestselling series, Burke is forced into a journey that will change the lives of the urban survivalist and his outlaw family forever.The only person Burke has ever called father, known throughout the underground as “The Prof,” is in a coma, barely clinging to life in an off the-books hospital. So when Pryce, a slippery man with government connections, offers the best medical services for the Prof and a clean slate for all concerned, Burke takes the contract without reading it. The two-year-old son of a Saudi prince has been kidnapped. A highly professional snatch; no mistakes, no clues, and no ransom note. Burke’s job: get the kid back, whatever it takes. To do so, the ultimate man-for-hire must return to the day “Baby Boy Burke” was written on his birth certificate, and write, in the blood of his enemies, the final act of this story.
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2.0 out of 5 stars
Candidate for the weakest book in the Burke series?,
By Mike Garratty "mike garratty" (Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Another Life: The Final Burke Novel (Hardcover)
I have read all the Burke series and much of Andrew Vachss'other novels and short stories, starting with Strega, the second of the Burke series. Flood, the first Burke book, came later for me. The Burke series I found always hard to put down,quick, and easy reads that I usually finished on the first or second day. I found this particular entity which may be the final one in the series very slow and ultiminately a slow and disappointing novel. Not one of Vachss' books that I would recommend. I rather hope it is not the final. I would not want Burke to go out on a negative note.
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This review is from: Another Life: The Final Burke Novel (Hardcover)
Not my kind of book , bad choice for me but I am sure others would enjoy it.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Read this guy now.,
By Paul Donato (Nova Scotia) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Another Life: The Final Burke Novel (Hardcover)
I know I haven't even read this "Burke" novel yet but going by the past dozen or so it will be a hit. I give it 5 advance stars so I can be the first to tell you if you haven't read the "Burke" books and are in to seriously hard boiled crime fiction where the "bad" guys get one over on the "worse" guys, you'd better start at the beginning. Don't read this one. Go back and check out some Andrew Vachss websites, find a list of the novels in order and come back to Amazon and order the first one. If you like it you'll be hooked. Then read them all. They're not for the weak stomached, but if vengance is your thing and you want to see some real justice in the world read these books and do it in order. it will make it that much more fun. Burke, the main protaganist, is Bond (Daniel Craig version) without the bowtie, who goes anywhere, does anything, and says to hell with the rules. And one last thing Burke and his criminal family love to listen to Judy Henske. Check her CDs out toEnjoy the ride P
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