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Loading... Strega (original 1987; edition 1988)by Andrew H. Vachss
Work InformationStrega by Andrew Vachss (Author) (1987)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Very dark, very "noir." Also very dumb and "stupid." ( ) Another dark story of Burke, who is hired by a former jailmate to stop a man from harassing his niece, Gina/Strega. She then contacts Burke to find a photo taken of her friend's adorable son, who was sodomized on a school trip. Burke enlists the support of his unorthodox team (Michelle, the prostitute, Max, the Mongolian mute, Mama, the Vietnamese restauranteur, and Mole, the junkyard owner, to track down the perpetrators. no reviews | add a review
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Andrew Vachss's implacable private eye has a new client, Strega. She wants Burke to find an obscene photograph and that search will take him into the ocean that flows just beneath the city, an ocean whose currents are flesh and money, the anguish of children and the pleasure of twisted adults. It is a place that Burke can visit only at the risk of his sanity and his life. But between the power of Strega and his own sense of justice, there is no turning back. In Strega one of our most acclaimed crime writers gives us a thriller that might have been imagined by Dante. For this is a tour of hell with no stops left out, conducted by a novelist who writes with the authority of the damned. "It's wonderful. The words leap off the page. The plot is fresh. The principal character is original. The style is as clean as a haiku." -- The Washington Post Book World No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999LC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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