Safe House - A Burke Novel (Paperback, 1st Vintage Crime/Black Lizard ed)

The new novel from Andrew Vachss puts Burke 'hard-core career criminal and man-for-hire' up against a new breed of predator: stalkers. Some obsessed, some deranged, all dangerous.

Burke's old prison pal Hercules, hired by a shadowy network that runs a safehouse for stalking victims, botched the job, and one of the stalkers is dead. To save his partner, Burke has to penetrate the network, and he makes a deal with the boss, Crystal Beth, a woman as obsessed as the stalkers. But Crystal Beth has a stalker of her own, an extortionist who threatens to bring down her entire network unless she surrenders one of the women she's hiding.

When Burke learns that the extortionist might be government-issue, and that the stalker he's protecting is a member of a neo-Nazi cell with plans to make Oklahoma City look like a pipe bomb, his survivalist instincts go on full alert ("When there's too many loose threads, somebody always weaves them into a noose"). And when it comes down to making his own house and his family-of-choice safe, Burke turns lethal.

With blistering power, Safe House reminds us why Kirkus has called Burke "one of the most fascinating male characters in crime fiction."


From the Hardcover edition.

General

Imprint:	Vintage Books
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Burke Series, 10
Release date:	March 1999
First published:	March 1999
Authors:	Andrew Vachss
Dimensions:	200 x 129 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	320
Edition:	1st Vintage Crime/Black Lizard ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-375-70074-3
Categories:	Books > Fiction > Genre fiction > Crime & mystery > General
LSN:	0-375-70074-9
Barcode:	9780375700743

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