Flood

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Andrew H. Vachss

Mystery

Pan.

Blue Belle

Thrillers & Suspense

Pan Books

Andrew Vachss’s previous novel, Dead and Gone, prompted the Rocky Mountain News to say, “Starting a Vachss novel is like putting a vial of nitroglycerine into your pocket and going for a jog.” With his latest thriller, Vachss turns the heat up a notch by dropping his career criminal and ultimate urban survivalist, Burke, in the middle of some of the most dangerously determined humans he has ever faced. Burke has gone “missing-and-presumed” from his native New York City, following a failed assassination attempt. The shadowy man-for-hire is scratching out an existence in the Pacific Northwest, waiting to see if it is safe to return. Without his underground network of contacts and connections, cut off from his own people, Burke is forced to abandon his trademark complex scams. Instead, he returns to what he refers to as “violence for money.” When Gem, the professional border-crosser who calls herself his wife, brings him a job tracking down a runaway teenager, Burke finds himself in a long, dark tunnel of lies—lined with more games than players. Burke takes to the unfamiliar streets, quickly and brutally establishing a presence. The whisper-stream carries him to a fanatical group of criminal Samaritans dedicated to supplying adequate drugs for those suffering from chronic pain. Forced into a potentially deadly alliance, Burke walks the wire between betrayals, risking it all for a girl he has never met. Because the State-raised outlaw knows better than most that there are many kinds of pain. And many ways to “manage” it.

Pain Management: A Burke Novel

Literature & Fiction

United States

KNOPF

When millionaire playboy Bruce Wayne experiences a revelation about his childhood and transformation into Batman, he follows a trail of perversion to Southeast Asia to destroy the Ultimate Evil . . . or die. By the author of Down in the Zero.

Batman: The Ultimate Evil

Diane Pub Co.

UNABRIDGED, 18 hours on 15 CDs.From Publishers Weekly:Vachss's latest, set in 1959, leaves recurring character Burke behind to explore the teeming, clannish, race-driven underside of American politics. The Southern town of Locke City, at the mountainous foot of the rust belt, has become the vice-driven fief of one Royal Beaumont, a wheelchair-bound "hillbilly" who indulges in casual incest and rules the town by force. When the New York mafia tries to cut in on the action, Beaumont fights back, determined to protect his stake-and the town's racial composition, especially with a stealthy local black militant cell gaining in strength. Michael Shalare's Irish mob arrives and proposes a truce on the grounds that once "our man" Kennedy gets in, the Italians will be "told" to leave, and racial as well as monetary order will be preserved. The book is broken by episodic bursts of dialogue with time-stamp headings ("1959 October 04 Sunday 20:46"); the dialogue itself doesn't feel differentiated enough from tough guy to tough guy, and smacks of faux periodisms. Some of what Greil Marcus called the "old, weird America" surfaces, but any scene with a woman in it yields awkward results. The pace is good and the plot is riveting, though the telescoped sociopolitics feel rigged from the start, as does a bloody climax. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

Two Trains Running: (Lib)(CD)

Contemporary

BOOKS ON TAPE]

Language: English Publisher: Diamond Comic Distributors A collection of illustrated prose about the dreams of children. some of the horrors of childhood. and the need for children to be nurtured and protected

Another Chance to Get It Right: A Children's Book for Adults (3rd edition)

Comics & Graphic Novels

Publishers

Diamond Comic Distributors

Burke - hard-core criminal and man-for-hire - is up against a new breed of predator: stalkers. Some obsessed, some deranged, all dangerous. A beautiful outlaw hires Burke to shield one of her charges from a vengeful ex with a fetish for Nazism. But the stalker has a protector who can shut down her operation for good. When Burke learns that the extortionist might be government-issue, and that the stalker 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. And when it comes down to making his own house and his family-of-choice safe, Burke turns lethal.

Safe House

Canongate Books Ltd.

Contents: Give Me Liberty; Concrete: Objects of Value; Aliens; The American; Roachmill; Placebo; Black Cross; The Aerialist, Part 3; Heartbreakers, Prologue; Aliens vs. Predator; Sin City, Part 1

Dark Horse Presents Fifth Anniversary Special

Frank, Miller

DARK HORSE COMICS +

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