Andrew Vachss: Footsteps of the Hawk (USA 1996)

From the Publisher:
"Vachss writes a hypnotically violent prose made up of equal parts of broken concrete blocks and razor wire." -- Chicago Sun-Times
A pulse-quickening new crime novel featuring Burke, ex-con, private investigator, and rumored hit man who harbors a pathological hatred for those who prey on children.

In Footsteps of the Hawk Burke himself is in danger of becoming a victim. Two rogue cops are stalking him. The coolly seductive Belinda Roberts wants him to free a man charged with a grisly string of rape-murders. The brutal and half-crazy Detective Jorge Morales may be trying to frame Burke for the same crimes. What ensues is a novel of highwire suspense and nightmarish authenticity, informed by an insider's knowledge of the city where everything-from flesh to other people's cellular phone numbers-is up for sale.

"Vachss waves a powerful light across a city landscape that few writers go near and none portray so convincingly." -- Los Angeles Times

Andrew Vachss: Footsteps of the Hawk. Vintage Crime / Black Lizard, ISBN: 0679766634 (October, 1996), 237 p., $12.00.

Andrew Vachss: Footsteps of the Hawk (USA 1996)

From the Publisher:
Hard on the heels of his national bestseller Down in the Zero, Andrew Vachss puts Burke --"one of the most fascinating male characters in crime fiction" (Kirkus) -- back into motion. Burke has returned to the streets of New York City -- territory he knows so well and hates so deeply.

Two rogue cops -- one male, one female -- are stalking each other, and all of Burke's survival skills are not enough to keep him out of the cross fire. She seems to want Burke to help an innocent man get out of prison. He seems to want to make Burke a suspect in a series of murders possibly connected to the rape-murder her prisoner is serving time for. None of it adds up. Burke can't fit any logic around the situation, but it feels "treacherous bad." He's got to figure it out before he can get out of it -- and by that time it might be too late.

Andrew Vachss: Footsteps of the Hawk. A Burke Novel. Alfred A. Knopf, ISBN: 0679445005 (September, 1995), 237 p., $23.00.