Footsteps of the Hawk (Burke Series #8)

by Andrew Vachss

Overview

  In Footsteps of the Hawk Burke himself is in danger of becoming a victim.  Two rogue cops are stalking him.  The coolly seductive Belinda Roberts wants him to free a man charged with a grisly string of rape-murders. The brutal and half-crazy Detective Jorge Morales may be trying to frame Burke for the same crimes.  What ensues is a novel of high-wire suspense and nightmarish authenticity informed by an insider's knowledge of the city where everything—from flesh to other people's cellular phone numbers—is up for sale.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780679766636
Publisher:	Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date:	10/28/1996
Series:	Burke Series , #8
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	5.18(w) x 7.99(h) x 0.54(d)

About the Author

Andrew Vachss, an attorney in private practice specializing in juvenile justice and child abuse, is the country’s best recognized and most widely sought after spokesperson on crimes against children. He is also a bestselling novelist and short story writer, whose works include Flood (1985), the novel which first introduced Vachss’ series character Burke, Strega (1987), Choice of Evil (1999), and Dead and Gone (2000). His short stories have appeared in Esquire, Playboy, and The Observer, and he is a contributor to ABA Journal, Journal of Psychohistory, New England Law Review, The New York Times, and Parade.

Vachss has worked as a federal investigator in sexually transmitted diseases, a caseworker in New York, and a professional organizer. He was the director of an urban migrants re-entry center in Chicago and another for ex-cons in Boston. After managing a maximum-security prison for violent juvenile offenders, he published his first book, a textbook, about the experience. He was also deeply involved in the relief effort in Biafra, now Nigeria.

For ten years, Vachss’ law practice combined criminal defense with child protection, until, with the success of his novels, it segued exclusively into the latter, which is his passion. Vachss calls the child protective movement “a war,” and considers his writing as powerful a weapon as his litigation.

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Editorial Reviews

"Vachss is a contemporary master."- Atlanta Journal-Constitution

"Vachss writes hypnotically violent prose made up of equal parts of broken concrete blocks and razor wire."-Chicago-Sun Times

"Vachss waves a powerful light across a city landscape that few writers go near and none portray so convincingly."- Los Angeles Times

From the Publisher

Latest installment in the Burke series, in which the gritty detective finds himself battling two rogue cops. (Nov.)

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