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Published by Pantheon on June 9, 2015 SignWave opens with an assassin named Olaf giving Dell a ridiculously long-winded lecture on his philosophy of assassination while he's bleeding to death. The lecture is Olaf's legacy, bequeathed to Dell along with the claws that he uses as a weapon of self-d ...

First published in 1996 False Allegations isn't the best of the Burke novels but it might be the most interesting. Taking on the serious problem of false allegations of sexual assault, Vachss provides a mountain of evidence to establish that accusations of sexual assault are too often false, that ...

Published by Pantheon on November 9, 2010 Sugar is a professional. He's a thief, he's good at his job, and he's proud of his adherence to the rules of the game. Sugar has just finished a jewelry store heist planned by his friend Solly when he's picked up for a rape. He couldn't have committed the ...

First published in 1995 The Burke series was losing some of its energy by the time Footsteps of the Hawk came along. Andrew Vachss used the Burke books as message novels, but readers got the message early on. Vachss' narrow focus on the damage done by child predators left Burke without much room ...

Published by Tachyon Publications on March 1, 2016 Joe Lansdale has written eight or nine novels featuring the characters Hap Collins and Leonard Pine. Hap provides the narrative voice. He's sort of an East Texas liberal who has been on a long and unsuccessful quest to find himself. His buddy, Le ...