Mask Market by Andrew H Vachss

Mask Market by Andrew H Vachss

They meet in a no name diner. A shadowy man hands Burke a CD dossier of someone he wants found. Minutes later, as Burke watches from an alley, his client is gunned down by a professional hunter killer team. Burke slips away, unsure if he s been spotted. Later, when he examines the dossier, he discovers that the missing woman is Beryl Preston, a girl he d rescued from a brutal pimp twenty years earlier when she was only thirteen and returned to her father. Now he has to find her again not only because she might be in danger, but also because he has to prove to himself that his rescue mission hadn t been financed by a predator who wanted his property returned. His search will force him to confront a new kind of human ugliness and, finally, to practice the survivalist triage that has marked and cursed his life since childhood. In Mask Market, Burke the outlaw investigator finds himself searching for the truth: not only about a girl named Beryl, but also about himself.
This is classic Burke: dark, dangerous, and galvanizing, from the opening scene to the explosive climax.

From the Hardcover edition.

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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ISBN 13	9780375424229
ISBN 10	0375424229
Title	Mask Market
Author	Andrew H Vachss
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Pantheon Books
Year published	2006-08-15
Number of pages	241
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