Down in the Zero
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Down in the Zero by Andrew H Vachss
Andrew Vachss has reinvented detective fiction for an age in which guilty secrets are obsolete and murder isn't even worth a news headline. And in the person of his haunted, hell-ridden private eye Burke, Vachss has given us a new kind of hero: a man inured to every evil except the kind that preys on children. Now Burke is back, investigating an epidemic of apparent suicides among the teenagers of a wealthy Connecticut suburb. There he discovers a sinister connection between the anguish of the young and the activities of an elite sadomasochistic underground, for whom pain and its accompanying rituals are a source of pleasure and power. Vachss's] short sharp sentences crackle with energy; his plots are satisfyingly elaborate; the narratives are beautifully paced, and the characters . . . are always pungently individual. -- Chicago Sun-Times The characters and events are as sharply defined as if they were etched in steel. The prose is short and choppy, like the ticking of a time bomb about to explode. -- Seattle Post-IntelligencerSKU | Unavailable |
ISBN 13 | 9780679433286 |
ISBN 10 | 0679433287 |
Title | Down in the Zero |
Author | Andrew H Vachss |
Condition | Unavailable |
Publisher | Alfred A. Knopf |
Year published | 1994-08-23 |
Number of pages | 259 |
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