Shella – Andrew Vachss
General Information
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Title: Shella
Author: Vachss, Andrew
Read By: Fred Major
Copyright: 1993
Genre: Mystery
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Book Description
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Vachss’s seventh novel–and his first not to feature “outlaw” p.i.
Burke (Sacrifice, 1991, etc.). The author’s new antihero inhabits the
same mean streets as Burke, but on the shadow side: Known as “John
Smith” or “Ghost,” he’s an uneducated contract killer–and in a voice
that’s so stripped-down simple that it veers close to parody, he tells
the compelling, violent tale of how he tracked down a long-lost girlfriend.
John and Shella first meet in a bar where she strips:
“Like blind dogs, we heard the same whistle. Recognized each other
in the dark.” The two hook up to play the “Badger game”–a dry-hustle
extortion–until John’s caught and sent to prison. There, he makes an
example of one `
wolf” (
`I got my thumb in his eye. Pushed it through
until I felt it go all wet and sticky”) in order to serve quiet time
for the next three years.
Released, he begins to search for Shella even as he picks up stripper/hooker
Misty, a born victim who doubles as a springboard for Vachss’s usual
street-moralizing (Shella won’t hook so she’s superior to Misty, etc.).
John– revealed as a product of child abuse and Dickensian reform schools-
-travels with Misty until a lead on Shella takes him alone to Chicago.-
There, he hooks up with a radical Native American who introduces him
to a mysterious government operative, a computer genius who asks John
to kill the head of the paramilitary group of white supremacists who
murdered the operative’s undercover agent. In exchange, the operative
will find Shella. John poses as a redneck bigot, infiltrates the group’s
camp, and, after much danger and death, makes his kill. He’s then directed
to Shella–whose surprising fate closes the story with a punch to the
heart.
Despite the absurdly hard-boiled prose: a swift, savage, and unexpectedly
moving exploration–somewhat reminiscent of Jim Thompson–of love among
the swamp lizards.
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