False Allegations

ACCLAIM FOR Andrew Vachss

"Vachss is in the first rank of American crime writers."

—Cleveland Plain Dealer

"Burke is an unlikely combination of Sherlock Holmes, Robin Hood, and Rambo, operating outside the law as he rights wrongs….Vachss has obviously seen just how unable the law is to protect children. And so, while Burke may be a vigilante, Vachss's stories don't feature pointless bloodshed. Instead, they burn with righteous rage and transfer a degree of that rage to the reader."

—Washington Post Book World

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

—The New York Times

"The best detective fiction being written….Add a stinging social commentary…a Célinesque journey into darkness, and we have an Andrew Vachss, one of our most important writers."

—Martha Grimes

"Vachss is America's dark scribe of the 1990s….His protagonist Burke is our new dark knight, a cold–eyed crusader."

—James Grady, author of Six Days of the Condor

"Burke s the toughest talking first–person narrator since Mike Hammer….Vachss can write!

—Los Angeles Times

"Move over, Hammett and Chandler, you've got company….Andrew Vachss has become a cult favorite, and for good reason."

—Cosmopolitan

"Burke would eat Spade and Marlowe for breakfast, not even spitting out the bones. [He] is one tough, mean, pray–god–you–don't–meet–him hombre."

—Boston Herald