Andrew Vachss: Sacrifice (USA 1996)

From the Publisher:
"Vachss's writing is as gritty as ever... It's doubtful there's another fictional private eye who can summon up in the reader as powerful-and powerfully conflicting -- emotions as Burke can." - Newsday

What-or who-could turn a gifted little boy into a murderous thing that calls itself "Satan's Child"? In search of an answer, a man named Burke travels from a festering welfare hotel to a neat frame house where a voodoo priestess presides over a congregation of assassins. For this vigilante and unlicensed private eye has made it his business to defend the small victims whom the law has failed -- even a child who has been made into a killer. Gripping and chillingly knowledgeable about the mechanisms of evil, Sacrifice is a thriller of savage authority, from one of the best crime writers of our generation.

"Vachss is a contemporary master... Decidedly hard-boiled his prose is as lean, tough-edged and brittle as the man who is his protagonist." - Atlanta Journal-Constitution

"A harrowing tale in which outcasts are the moral heroes, and the people who belong to civilization are corrupt... An absolute original... Andrew Vachss has become a cult favorite, and for good reason." -- Cosmopolitan

Andrew Vachss: Sacrifice. Vintage Crime / Black Lizard, ISBN: 0679764100 (January, 1996), 293 p., $11.00.

Andrew Vachss: Sacrifice (USA 1992)

From the Publisher:
"Vachss waves a powerful light across a city landscape that few writers go near, and none portray so convincingly. It is unpleasant, but it is also mesmerizing in its intensity." Los Angeles Times

A battered child has vanished. The trail leads down, maybe as low as Burke has ever gone, into the sleazy subbasement of morality. He's not hunting for a man but for evil in the heart of man. It takes a secret meeting with an urban voodoo queen to send Burke to the doorstep of unforgivable sin -- a cult whose horrific acts of abuse have turned a child savage. Burke wants the adults to pay, wants to see it happen, wants to make it happen...

"Vachss' writing... is as gritty as ever... It's doubtful there's another fictional private eye who can summon up in the reader powerful -- and powerfully conflicting -- emotions as Andrew Vachss' Burke can." -- Newsday

"A welcome return to the seamy New York streets... Spare and tense." -- Chicago Tribune
"No one writes the type of books Andrew Vachss does. No one can." -- People

Andrew Vachss: Sacrifice. Burke plunges into the darkest of pits: a lair of evil where children are taught to kill... A Novel. Ivy Books, ISBN: 0804109192 (July, 1992), 293 p., $5.99.