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Hard Candy (Burke #4)
by
Andrew Vachss (Goodreads Author),
Phil Gigante
In this mercilessly compelling thriller, Burke ? the private eye, sting artist, and occasional hit man who metes out a cruelly ingenious vengeance on those who victimize children ? is up against a soft-spoken messiah who may be rescuing runaways or recruiting them for his own hideous purposes. But in doing so Burke becomes a target for an entire Mafia family, a whore with ...more
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Published
April 28th 2010
by Brilliance Audio
(first published 1989)
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While Burke is reeling over Belle's death, he's called by someone from his past, a hooker named Candy. Candy's daughter Elivira is mixed up with a cult leader named Train and it's up to Burke to bring her back. Complicating matters is the fact that a hitman named Wesley is furious over Burke's killing of Mortay and wants the money he was promised by the mob. Can Burke settle things with Candy and avoid being Wesley's next victim?
The Burke books get bleaker and more twisted with ea...more
The Burke books get bleaker and more twisted with ea...more
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our first impression as children is usually what sticks. so, after years spent in manhattan - that vast, multi-personalitied behemoth - it'll always remain somewhat in the vision of death wish: graffiti'd subways, garbage-strewn streets, cracked-out floppy-titted streetwalkers, and roving gangs of dark-skinned thieves with afros who flash switchblades and call people 'sucka!'... mix that in with a bit of romanticized east-village punkrockery and that's my NYC. and vachss kinda riffs on this wor...more
The fourth and strongest entry in the series to date. Burke and his co-horts feel like a family now, the underground they inhabit, a dark yet familiar social reality. Burke reels from the death of Belle and in the process, finds himself having to work with Wesley, the most notorious contract killer in New York. It's a fast paced, lean & mean story that takes Burke face to face with gangsters, cult leaders and a high class hooker connected to his past. All in all, a really satisfying story a...more
This book is known as book 4 in the Burke series, however books 2,3, and 4 (Strega, Blue Belle, and Hard Candy) are the re-working of Andrew Vachss first novel "A Bomb Built in Hell". Vachss took the main charecter from that book, an ultimate hit man named Wesley, and introduced him into the Burke series. If one was to read 'Bomb' you would see how Vachss melded that book into the Burke series by adding charecters and situations to make it fit his new storylines. To read Hard Candy on ...more
I'm not sure how I managed to miss Vachss's Burke novels until now, but I have. That's a mistake that will be remedied quickly, having read my first Burke novel.
This is the earliest book in the series I could put my hands on for now, but it's definitely a good introduction to Burke and his world. Naturally, it gives away some secrets from the previous books, but hey, it's not Vachss's fault I'm reading them out of order. :)
The writing is clean, crisp, efficient and to the...more
This is the earliest book in the series I could put my hands on for now, but it's definitely a good introduction to Burke and his world. Naturally, it gives away some secrets from the previous books, but hey, it's not Vachss's fault I'm reading them out of order. :)
The writing is clean, crisp, efficient and to the...more
Another excellent Burke novel.
Unlicensed private investigator and con-man Burke has hit rock bottom after the death of his client and lover Belle. Adrift in a sea of despair, even an increasingly desperate series of scams cannot lift the gloom. Burke is on a collision course with hit-man Wesley, the only man who truly frightened him, and Candy, a woman for hire who has known Burke since childhood. They are working different angles on a man named Tain, a messianic figure who claims to "save" children from the street...more
"City vultures never have to leave the ground"...Vachss gets it down so tight the freakin' hinges squeak in this, the fourth and one of the best in the Burke series. Someone needs to get Martin Scorsese or Abel Ferrara to adapt these suckers into movies! They are so quintessentially New York City that they just scream out for either of those two filmmakers...and right now Mickey Rourke would make the perfect Burke!
Hard Candy (Burke #4) by Andrew Vachss (Vintage Books 1989)(Fiction - Mystery) finds Burke along with his usual cast of characters. A cult leader named Train is running a baby breeding operation; Burke joins forces with the hero/monster psychopath Wesley against Train and the mob. 5/10, finished 4/6/11.
This is pretty over the top. So extremely hard boiled that it was comical at times. I don't have a very strong stomach for child abuse, etc. and this book was packed with it. If you are looking for a gritty, bleak, incredibly violent crime book, you could do a lot worse.
This is prime Vachss! However, I have noticed while reading this Burke Book, (my third or fourth) that due to Andrew Vachss's style of writing, it seems like I am getting or comprehending only about 65% of what is written or what is being revealed. Nevertheless, I am hooked on this series. And I confess that I am reading the books entirely out of sequence. These books are an acquired taste because they are so completely unique.
Turns out Burke is almost as noir as the types he stalks, though he manages to serve his monomania in the worst circumstances. And his old army buddy is the noirest of all.
Don't know why, but I loved this book. Was really easy to read, and was fast paced.. A really good book!
Gritty, very realistic, a little too much so for some, I'm sure. Very gripping read.
Vachss has a very unique writing style, you will not mistake his books for anyone else!
Poor, poor Burke. Love an author who can make you root for the "bad" guys.
and the stakes get higher and higher. gritty.
Classic!
One of the best Burke novels yet.
Another solid Burke Novel from Vachss. I love the fact that he writes so fluidly that you just can't put the book down.
I wasn't crazy about it, would read again sometime though
My favorite of the Burke novels I've read
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Andrew Vachss has been a federal investigator in sexually transmitted diseases, a social-services caseworker, a labor organizer, and has directed a maximum-security prison for “aggressive-violent” youth. Now a lawyer in private practice, he represents children and youths exclusively. He is the author of numerous novels, including the Burke series, two collections of short stories, and a wide varie...more
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