Haiku – Andrew Vachss
General Information
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Title: Haiku
Author: Vachss, Andrew
Read By: Christopher Lane
Copyright: 2009
Genre: Mystery
File Information
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Number of MP3s: 6
Total Duration: 6:37:24
Total MP3 Size: 227.62
Encoded At: CBR 80 kbit/s 44100 Hz Joint Stereo
ID3 Tags: Set, v1.1, v2.3
Book Description
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Vachss, author of the long-running Burke series that concluded with
2008’s Another Life, introduces an engaging if damaged new hero in this
soulful thriller. Ho, an elderly martial arts teacher who once was the
master of a successful dojo, renounces all worldly goods after one of
his students dies because of something he said. He takes to the mean
streets of an unnamed American city to atone, joining a ragtag group
of homeless men: Michael, once a high-flying stockbroker; Ranger, a
Vietnam war vet; Lamont, an ex-gang leader and poet; Brewster, a psychotic;
and Target, who speaks only in repetitive verbal explosions. A mystery
involving a white Rolls Royce emerges early on, but as the book progresses,
this plot is abandoned for another concerning Brewster’s book collection.
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From the author of the acclaimed Burke series: a searing new novel that
follows a band of homeless outcasts on a mission to recover what each
has lost.
Ho is an ancient sensei who began training as a child, until war changed
him forever. When his dismissive arrogance causes the death of a student
he called ‘daughter,’ Ho renounces not only his possessions but also
his role as master, roaming the streets of an always-cold city in search
of a way to atone. As if magnetized, a group slowly forms around him:
Michael, an addicted gambler who finally lost himself; Ranger, a psychotic
Vietnam veteran for whom reality is an ever-revolving door; Lamont,
once a fearless street-gang warlord who degenerated into hopeless alcoholism
when the literati who discovered his poetry discarded him; Target, a
relentless ‘clanger’ who speaks only by echoing speech sounds; and Brewster,
an obsessive collector of 1950s ‘hardboiled’ paperbacks whose stash
is housed in an abandoned building even vermin avoid.
Late one night, Michael spots a woman in a white Rolls-Royce throwing
something into the river. Convinced that the woman is a perfect blackmail
target, he attempts to recruit the others to search for her. But what
transforms a halfhearted effort into a mission is the news that the
building housing Brewster’s ‘library’ is slated for demolition. Knowing
that Brewster could not possibly survive such a loss is enough to bring
them together in a search for the ultimate problem-solver: money.
Each frantic knock opens another barred door as demolition draws nearer.
And the answers to each man’s questions trigger shocking explosions
that hit you with all the visceral power we have come to expect from
this fierce and dynamic writer.
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