Only Child – Andrew Vachss
General Information
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Title: Only Child
Author: Andrew Vachss
Read By: Phil Gigante
Copyright: 2002
Audiobook Copyright: 2011
Genre: Thriller
Series Name: Burke
Position in Series: 14
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Book Description
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"Sherlock Holmes is dead," intones Giovanni, a New York Mafia boss who
hires street criminal Burke-who’s made a career of killing child murderers
and molesters-to solve the murder of his illegitimate teenage daughter,
Vonni.
Indeed, the whole Vachss oeuvre (this is the 14th novel to feature the
avenging angel Burke) is a reminder that Conan Doyle’s fictional sleuth
would be clueless in the violent, sordid world of today’s hard-boiled
mystery.
Burke doesn’t search for clues so much as extort them by combining street
smarts, his formidable intelligence and a deeply rooted outrage at the
victimization of the young. Burke’s fans will be delighted that he’s
returned to his home turf-the gritty back streets of New York City-where
he’s welcomed into the bosom of his ragtag band of delinquent colleagues.
The novel has a compelling plot line (like a police procedural without
the police), but the narrative is far from seamless. There are a couple
of false starts as Burke searches for something to occupy his time,
and the references to earlier novels will probably baffle newcomers.
More seriously, the elaborate ruse Burke executes to identify and trap
the killer is barely credible. But the noirish prose (a man’s eyes are
"the color of old dimes") is a pleasure, and Burke is an antihero of
the old school.
Though it doesn’t break new artistic ground for Vachss, the book is
another harrowing glimpse of the urban underworld from an author who
clearly knows his terrain and whose sympathy for the truly innocent-the
children-is unstinting.
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