Choice of Evil

Acclaim for ANDREW VACHSS

“Vachss’s reverence for storytelling is evident in the blunt beauty of his language.”

—Chicago Sun-Times

“From the unusual opening to the last page, Choice of Evil is absolutely original, strange, and just plain ole creepy. This is the best Burke adventure yet, and not to be missed.”

—Joe R. Lansdale, author of Rumble Tumble

“Vachss crafted a taut narrative of supernatural suspense. . . . Decompressing from this novel is a complex matter of sorting through issues and reactions. Most readers’ lives will never be quite this gritty. But transporting you to the unfamiliar, to the startling and reorienting, is really what good art’s all about.”

—LOCUS

“Andrew Vachss continues to write the most provocative novels around. His sentences fall like arrow-showers. In Choice of Evil, he ratchets up the suspense by confronting Burke with perhaps the worst and most complex villain to date.”

—Martha Grimes

“Thrilling. . . . Perhaps because Vachss considers it one of an artist’s duties to show us that which we don’t necessarily want to see, he shines a light unflinchingly into the monster’s heart, unafraid to go on record with his simple, profound thoughts on this world’s horrors.”

—Citybooks

“Andrew is one of the best writers, and Burke one of the greatest characters, of late twentieth century fiction. Choice of Evil is a tour-de-force in the grimmest sense of the phrase. Andrew’s ability to focus his spot-beams on the bleakest aspects of human nature has never been more intense.”

—Alan Grant, author of The Bogie Man

“Vachss seems bottomlessly knowledgeable about the depth and variety of human twistedness.”

—The New York Times

“Andrew Vachss has become a cult favorite, and for good reason.”

—Cosmopolitan

“[Vachss is] able to wring edginess from his portrayal of a society hovering beneath the reader.”

—The Village Voice

“[Vachss] does to pimps, pederasts, snuff film makers and porn industry purveyors what you know he’d like to do in real life, but seldom can. In other words, he decimates them.”

—The Detroit News

“Burke is the toughest talking first person narrator since Mike Hammer.”

—Los Angeles Times