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Sto caricando le informazioni... Safe House (1998)di Andrew Vachss
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Excellent entry in the Burke series. ( ) Safe House blends the white-supremacist movement with the societal problems of stalking and spousal abuse. In order to rescue an old jailhouse friend (Hercules), who accidentally kills a man he has been hired by Crystal Beth to scare off abusing a battered woman, Burke and his crew get involved with a shadowy figure (Pryce), with vague ties to law enforcement and the government. Crystal Beth is a hippie commune-raised woman, whose life is dedicated to helping the abused, which, of course, resonates with Burke. Pryce and Burke match skills and wits, and Burke is tasked with killing Nazis (which the Mole loves) and stop their nefarious plan to level a Federal building in New York City using half a dozen truckloads full of explosives. The book's plot is sabotaged by about six completely unnecessary stories describing different stalking MOs by abused people, mostly women. Reading a Burke novel isn't like reading a normal book. It's a comfort food, not a gourmet treat. I got the comfort I was seeking. The series is reliable that way. You get a foreground of intense but damaged love, the kind of intensity that requires the damage to prove its depth, in a background of a cynicism that feels more like reality than reality itself. You get the only kind of justice available in such an environment. You ignore the flaws and go for the feelings. If you can soak a while in this, you'll be glad you did. If you can't, I feel sorry for you. I was looking for book with male characters that were broken inside but with a tough exterior that push people away yet still do good even it is through violence. I found that exact person in the character of Burke. My first introduction to him in this novel just made me want to run out and get every other book in the series. I *love* it when I discover a new series of novels that I know I will enjoy from the start. Interesting story of Burke - hardcore criminal and man-for-hire - who is drawn into investigating some stalkers when one of his friends ends up implicated with the death of a man. There are elements of spousal abuse, stalker issues, neo-nazis and a bombing plot. Being a man who is outside the law he has issues of trust. It's interesting but not necessarily something I would hunt out more about, however if I happened on more I'd read them. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
In Burke, Vachss gave readers of crime fiction a hero they could believe in, an avenger whose sense of justice was forged behind bars and tempered on New York's meanest streets. In this blistering new thriller, Burke is drawn into his ugliest case yet, one that involves an underground network of abused women and the sleekly ingenious stalkers who've marked them as their personal victims. Burke's client is Crystal Beth, a beautiful outlaw with a tattoo on her face and a mission burned into her heart. She is trying to shield one of her charges from a vengeful ex with fetishes for Nazism and torture. But the stalker has a protector, someone so informed, so ruthless, and so connected that he need only make a few phone calls to shut down Crystal Beth's operation for good--and Burke along with it. Sinuous in its complexities, brutal in its momentum, Safe House is Burke at the edge of his nerve and cunning. And it's Vachss at the peak of his form. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999Classificazione LCVotoMedia:
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