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Andrew Vachss

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in NYC, The United States

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Literature & Fiction, Mystery & Thrillers, Short Stories

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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 鈥渁ggressive-violent鈥� 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 variety of other material including song lyrics, graphic novels, essays, and a 鈥渃hildren鈥檚 book for adults.鈥� His books have been translated into twenty languages, and his work has appeared in Parade, Antaeus, Esquire, Playboy, the New York Times, and many other forums. A native New Yorker, he now divides his time between the city of his birth and the Pa ...more

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Review of a review, from the Zero collective

This is not a comment/criticism of the Opinions? Sure. First Amendment? Goes with saying. But when something is stated as fact, that's another story. The following quotes from the review are simply untrue:

[Dell] spends his time taking care of his woman

This is debatable, as Dolly certainly can take care of herself, but this:

killing those he considers the sc

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Andrew Vachss鈥檚 books

Average rating: 3.9 · 42,039 ratings · 2,696 reviews · 144 distinct works 鈥� Similar authors

	Flood (Burke, #1) 3.95 avg rating — 3,972 ratings — published 1985 — 52 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Strega (Burke, #2) 4.04 avg rating — 2,822 ratings — published 1987 — 44 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Blue Belle (Burke, #3) 4.09 avg rating — 2,447 ratings — published 1988 — 45 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hard Candy (Burke, #4) 4.08 avg rating — 2,087 ratings — published 1989 — 31 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Shella 4.06 avg rating — 1,808 ratings — published 1993 — 40 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Blossom (Burke, #5) 4.04 avg rating — 1,774 ratings — published 1990 — 36 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Down in the Zero (Burke, #7) 3.99 avg rating — 1,583 ratings — published 1994 — 29 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sacrifice (Burke, #6) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,564 ratings — published 1991 — 33 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Safe House (Burke, #10) 3.99 avg rating — 1,317 ratings — published 1998 — 25 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Batman: The Ultimate Evil 3.62 avg rating — 1,401 ratings — published 1995 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Life is a 铿乬ht, but not everyone鈥檚 a 铿乬hter. Otherwise, bullies would be an endangered species.”
― Andrew Vachss, Terminal

tags: bullies, bullying

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“Cats are the lap-dancers of the animal world. Soon as you stop shelling out, they move on, find another lap. They're furry little sociopaths. Pretty and slick -- in love with themselves. When's the last time you saw a seeing-eye cat?”
― Andrew Vachss, Safe House

tags: cat, cats, pet, pets

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“Stealing to eat ain鈥檛 criminal鈥攕tealing to be rich is.”
― Andrew Vachss, A Bomb Built in Hell

tags: crime, greed

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February/March 2014 Group Read

And Then There Were None/Agatha Christie

40 votes, 10.9%

The Shining / Stephen King

35 votes, 9.5%

Defending Jacob/ William Landay

33 votes, 9.0%

A Ghostly Undertaking/Tonya Kappes

30 votes, 8.2%

Ripper: A Novel / Isabel Allende

30 votes, 8.2%

Where the Bodies Are Buried / Christopher Brookmyre

21 votes, 5.7%

A Test Of Wills / Charles Todd

20 votes, 5.4%

Rules Of Prey / John Sandford

19 votes, 5.2%

The Green Mile / Stephen King

18 votes, 4.9%

1st to Die / James Patterson

18 votes, 4.9%

Aftershock: A Thriller/Andrew Vachss

16 votes, 4.4%

Pig Island/ Mo Hayder

14 votes, 3.8%

The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter/Sharyn McCrumb

13 votes, 3.5%

First Night of Summer/ Landon Parham

13 votes, 3.5%

The Blind Man of Seville/ Robert Wilson

11 votes, 3.0%

The Chalk Circle Man / Fred Vargas

8 votes, 2.2%

Havana Queen/James Bruno

6 votes, 1.6%

The Eleventh Victim/ Nancy Grace

5 votes, 1.4%

The Case of the Love Commandos / Tarquin Hall

5 votes, 1.4%

Broken Dolls /James Carol

5 votes, 1.4%

A Terrible Beauty/Graham Masterton

3 votes, 0.8%

On Behalf of the Family/ Mar Preston

2 votes, 0.5%

next of sin/Lisa Gordon

1 vote, 0.3%

Dr. 2/ Peter Tieryas

1 vote, 0.3%

367 total votes

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Andrew鈥檚 Quotes

“In my world, people are always plotting. You
have no idea of all the crimes people in business commit every
day. Like it was nothing. Or there鈥檚 a set of special rules for them.
Remember when Bush made that whole speech about 鈥榗orporate
ethics鈥� last year? What a fraud. You think stuff like Enron or
WorldCom is an aberration? It鈥檚 only the tip. Business is a religion.
Probably the only one practiced all over the world.”
― Andrew Vachss, Down Here

tags: andrew-vachss, business, corporate-greed, crime, enron, worldcom

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“When you hunt predators, the best camouflage is weakness.”
― Andrew Vachss, Sacrifice

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“Most investigators don't even know what the word means. You stop the cops from using informants and the only crimes they'd ever solve would be those by deranged postal workers who come to work once too often.”
― Andrew Vachss, False Allegations

tags: crime, humor, private-detective

12 likes

“People who don't have much get ugly about giving up the little they have left.”
― Andrew Vachss

tags: poverty, violence

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“Fear is an enemy that can be killed only at close range. The closest range of all is intimacy. The deeper the fear is embedded in one鈥檚 spirit, the more vulnerable it is.”
― Andrew Vachss, Haiku

tags: fear

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