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Everybody Pays: Stories

by Andrew Vachss

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A hit man defies the confines of a life sentence to avenge his sister's batterer.nbsp;nbsp;An immaculately dressed man hires a street gang to extract his daughter from a Central American prison, for reasons as mysterious as they are deadly.nbsp;nbsp;A two-bit graffiti artist with a taste for Nazi-ganda finds himself face-to-face with three punks out to make a mark of their own--literally--with a tattoo needle. From neo-noir master Andrew Vachss comes Everybody Pays, 38 white-knuckle rides into a netherworld of pederasts and prostitutes, stick-up kids and fall guys--where private codes of crime and punishment pulsate beneath a surface system of law and order, and our moralnbsp;nbsp;compass spins frighteningly out of control. Here is the street-grit prose that has earned Vachss comparisons to Chandler, Cain, and Hammett--and the ingenious plot twists that transform the double-cross into an expression of retribution, the dark deed into a thing of beauty. Electrifying and enigmatic, Everybody Paysnbsp;is a sojourn into the nature of evil itself--a trip made all the more frightening by its proximity to our front doorstep.… (more)
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A hit man defies the confines of a life sentence to avenge his sister's batterer.nbsp;nbsp;An immaculately dressed man hires a street gang to extract his daughter from a Central American prison, for reasons as mysterious as they are deadly.nbsp;nbsp;A two-bit graffiti artist with a taste for Nazi-ganda finds himself face-to-face with three punks out to make a mark of their own--literally--with a tattoo needle. From neo-noir master Andrew Vachss comes Everybody Pays, 38 white-knuckle rides into a netherworld of pederasts and prostitutes, stick-up kids and fall guys--where private codes of crime and punishment pulsate beneath a surface system of law and order, and our moralnbsp;nbsp;compass spins frighteningly out of control. Here is the street-grit prose that has earned Vachss comparisons to Chandler, Cain, and Hammett--and the ingenious plot twists that transform the double-cross into an expression of retribution, the dark deed into a thing of beauty. Electrifying and enigmatic, Everybody Paysnbsp;is a sojourn into the nature of evil itself--a trip made all the more frightening by its proximity to our front doorstep.

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Proving It
Reaching Back
Last Date
Tag
Dress-Up Day
Homeless
Mission
Going Home
The Real Thing
Slow Motion
True Colors.

From the Underground Series
  • Curtains
  • The Writing on the Wall
  • Safe Sex
  • Charmed Life
  • Gamblers
  • Just the Ticket
  • Summer Girl
  • Big Sister
  • Time Share
  • Goin' Down Slow
  • Word Play
  • Stepping Stone
  • Fireman
  • Dope Fiend
  • Escort Service
  • Stuntman
  • Piecework
  • The Real World
  • Perp Walk
  • Good for the Soul
  • Hit Man
  • Searcher
From the Cross Series
  • The Concrete Puppy
  • Harvest Time
  • Pigeon Drop
  • Two-Way Radio
Novella
  • Everybody Pays
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