Choice of Evil – Andrew Vachss
General Information
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Title: Choice of Evil
Author: Andrew Vachss
Read By: Phil Gigante
Copyright: 1999
Genre: Mystery
Series Name: Burke
Position in Series: 11
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Book Description
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When his girlfriend, Crystal Beth, is gunned down at a gay rights rally
in Central Park, Burke, the underground man-for-hire and expert hunter
of predators, vows vengeance. Butt someone beats him to the task: a
shadowy killer who calls himself Homo Erectus and who seems determined
to wipe gay bashers from the face of the earth. As the killer’s body
count rises, most citizens are horrified, but a few see him as a hero,
and they hire Burke to track him down . . . and help him escape.
In Choice of Evil, Burke is forced to confront his most harrowing challenge:
the mind of an obsessive serial killer. And soon the emotionally void
method behind the killer’s madness becomes terrifyingly familiar, reminding
Burke of his childhood partner, Wesley, the ice-man assassin who never
missed, even when the target was himself. Has Wesley come back from
the dead? The whisper-stream says so. And the truth may just challenge
Burke’s very sense of reality.
Quote:
"Choice of Evil is Vachss’s darkest Burke yet, exploring man’s propensity
for savagery, ice-cold cunning and wearing thin the limits of sanity."
— The Clarion-Ledger
"There is no other living American author with prose as razor-clean
as Andrew Vachss. . . . Vachss is a Zen warrior with a pen." — Coast
Weekly
With the possible exception of James Ellroy, Andrew Vachss is the mystery
writer with the darkest heart and the most troubled soul. Like his 10
other books about the enigmatic outlaw private eye called Burke, Choice
of Evil deals with unpleasant subjects–ritual murder, pedophilia, sexual
deviance–the full force of which are never dampened by attempts at
tact or taste. Vachss is not an author to look away from the nasty,
or try to soften any of life’s lowest blows.
That said, his latest does start off on a light note when Burke’s giant
mastiff, Pansy, is grabbed in a police raid. Burke and his motley crew
of helpers–people with names like Mole, Crystal Beth, and Max the Silent–stag-
e a raid on the animal shelter, and in a zany scene worthy of Lawrence
Block or Donald Westlake, set free a herd of caged canines. All too
soon, however, darkness descends as Crystal Beth–Burke’s main squeeze
and an activist for abused women–is killed at an outdoor rally, apparently
by someone who hates homosexuals. Following this atrocity, a vigilante
calling himself Homo Erectus declares war on gay bashers, and also on
pedophiles who seek to link their cause to gay rights. Burke is hired
to find this vigilante and keep him safe before the cops nab him.
Mentioning pedophilia to Burke is like waving a red flag at a bull:
he can (and does) go on for many pages about this particular evil as
he and a friendly lesbian dominatrix link Homo Erectus to a supposedly
long-dead killer from Burke’s own past.
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