Safe House

Acclaim for ANDREW VACHSS’s SAFE HOUSE

“A cobra’s nest of extortionists, neo-Nazis and other assorted freaks.”

—Chicago Tribune

“With his stripped down, stark prose and darkly evocative sense of place, Vachss introduces us to a world most of us would rather not know about—and then hooks us with a stunning story.”

—Milwaukee Journal

“Well done and well worth it.”

—Dayton Daily News

“Vachss’s prose is Hammett-tough, and Burke’s world is unsettling if not psychologically dangerous for the first-time reader.”

—Huntsville Times (Alabama)

“Vachss is one of my favorite writers, and I never miss one of his books. He brings incredible passion and flair to the mystery genre. Safe House is one of Vachss’s very best.”

—James Patterson

“Safe House comes at you with the speed of a bullet train, a style as spare and stripped down as origami and Andrew Vachss’s usual black-as-pitch theme—the abuse of innocence. Yet for all of the their dark modernity, Vachss’s novels are inheritors of nineteenthcentury social criticism, as much Dickens and Defoe as Hammett and Chandler.”

—Martha Grimes

“Andrew Vachss’s work is all about horror, outrage, moral indignation and the blood of commitment. Vachss is the voice of righteousness confronting a powerful and cowardly evil.”

—James Ellroy

“Among writers of suspense, Andrew Vachss’s work stands out for its substance, integrity and absorbing readability. Safe House has all the distinctive Vachss virtues—a seductive style, a thought-provoking story and the creation of an utterly convincing world. I read it compulsively and with great pleasure.

—Richard North Patterson

“Outside the herd of self-serving, navel-magnifying American novelists, one man walks tall and almost alone: Andrew Vachss. You can read him for razor-edged entertainment, or you can read him for help in understanding the monsters who stalk America’s streets. Either way, read him: he deserves that, and so do you.”

—James Grady