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Overview

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 a heart of cyanide, and a contract killer as implacable as a heat-seeking missile. Written with Vachss' signature narrative overdrive — and with his unnerving familiarity with the sub-basement of American crime — Hard Candy is vintage Burke.

“Burke fills a void. . . . With his soiled white hat, this Lone Ranger. . . asks difficult questions while shining light into the darkest recesses.” — Chicago Tribune
“There’s no way to put a [Vachss book] down once you’ve begun. . . . The plot hooks are engaging and the one-liners pierce like bullets.” — Detroit Free Press

Editorial Reviews

Publishers Weekly
Vachss's fourth street-smart novel featuring an unlicensed, ex-con private eye known as Burke has the shamus trying to rescue an old flame's daughter from a cult in Brooklyn, while coping with the rumor that he has become a gun for hire. ``Burke's turf--the sleazy underbelly of New York--springs to life in cinematic scenes,'' wrote PW. (Aug.)

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780679761693
  • Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
  • Publication date: 7/28/1995
  • Edition description: Reprint
  • Pages: 256
  • Sales rank: 455,495
  • Series: Burke Series, #4
  • Product dimensions: 5.21 (w) x 7.97 (h) x 0.56 (d)

Meet the Author

Andrew Vachss, an attorney in private practice specializing in juvenile justice and child abuse, is the country’s best recognized and most widely sought after spokesperson on crimes against children. He is also a bestselling novelist and short story writer, whose works include Flood (1985), the novel which first introduced Vachss’ series character Burke, Strega (1987), Choice of Evil (1999), and Dead and Gone (2000). His short stories have appeared in Esquire, Playboy, and The Observer, and he is a contributor to ABA Journal, Journal of Psychohistory, New England Law Review, The New York Times, and Parade.

Vachss has worked as a federal investigator in sexually transmitted diseases, a caseworker in New York, and a professional organizer. He was the director of an urban migrants re-entry center in Chicago and another for ex-cons in Boston. After managing a maximum-security prison for violent juvenile offenders, he published his first book, a textbook, about the experience. He was also deeply involved in the relief effort in Biafra, now Nigeria.

For ten years, Vachss’ law practice combined criminal defense with child protection, until, with the success of his novels, it segued exclusively into the latter, which is his passion. Vachss calls the child protective movement “a war,” and considers his writing as powerful a weapon as his litigation.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted August 9, 2006

    BITE THE CANDY

    Vachss is good . I live in NYC, and not too far from the main bus terminal (Penn Station), either. Steady flow of young meat into the city, into harm's way. They are waiting there for them, as Vachss writes. He captures part of the undeside of NY spot-on (though it has a thousand faces). A little stylized but then who isn't. Bite the candy and see.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 6, 2006

    Gritty But Great

    Hard Candy is gritty but great like the rest of Andrew Vachss' novels. It is sometimes grim and sad, but also sexy and funny. Like the rest of his books, it's difficult to put down once started.

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