Hard Candy

In this mercilessly compelling thriller, Burke--the private eye, sting artist, and occasional hit man who metes out a cruelly ingenious vengeance on those who victimize children--is up against a soft-spoken messiah, who may be rescuing runaways or recruiting them for his own hideous purposes. But in doing so Burke becomes a target for an entire Mafia family, a whore with a heart of cyanide, and a contract killer as implacable as a heat-seeking missile. Written with Vachss's signature narrative overdrive--and his unnerving familiarity with the sub-basement of American crime--Hard Candy is vintage Burke.

Author: Andrew Vachss
Publisher: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Published: 07/04/1995
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.48lbs
Size: 8.02h x 5.18w x 0.56d
ISBN: 9780679761693

Review Citation(s):
Booklist 05/01/2002 pg. 1452

About the Author
Andrew Vachss's many books include the Burke novels and two previous collections of short stories. His books have been translated into twenty languages, and his work has appeared in Parade, Antaeus, Esquire, Playboy, and The New York Times, among other publications. He died in 2021.