Blue Belle
Sep 2001 · Burke Series Book 3 · Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
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Burke is one of the most cold-blooded yet strangely honorable heroes in the history of crime fiction, an outlaw who makes his living by preying on the most vicious of New York City’s bottom-feeders, those who thrive on the suffering of children.
In Andrew Vachss’s tautly engrossing novel Burke is given a purse full of dirty money to find the infamous Ghost Van that is cutting a lethal swath among the teenage prostitutes in the ‘hood. He also gets help in the form of a stripper named Belle, whose moves on the runway are outclassed only by what she can do in a getaway car. But not even Burke is prepared for the evil that is behind the Ghost Van or for the sheer menace of its guardian, a cadaverous karate expert who enjoys killing so much that he has named himself after death.
In Andrew Vachss’s tautly engrossing novel Burke is given a purse full of dirty money to find the infamous Ghost Van that is cutting a lethal swath among the teenage prostitutes in the ‘hood. He also gets help in the form of a stripper named Belle, whose moves on the runway are outclassed only by what she can do in a getaway car. But not even Burke is prepared for the evil that is behind the Ghost Van or for the sheer menace of its guardian, a cadaverous karate expert who enjoys killing so much that he has named himself after death.
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Lillian Denise Crowe
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May 28, 2021
I have read all of the Burke series, and, at the time, I had never read anything like them before. Hard, gritty, real and hard to put down! I now have a hard time reading paper books, so with the invention of the e-reader I can now re-read all of these books! YES! Thank you, Mr. Vacchs!
Jay C.
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December 8, 2018
Read this hook on a fluke ...of all places , thing just ate my brain for a until I was looking at the back cover! raw.gritty,real..fn some you'll remember, period! Don't eat it until I say "SPEAK" !!
Albert Quinones
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November 10, 2014
Excellent read
About the author
Andrew Vachss’s many books include the Burke novels and two previous collections of short stories. His books have been translated into twenty languages, and his work has appeared in Parade, Antaeus, Esquire, Playboy, and The New York Times, among other publications. He died in 2021.
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