Search - Strega

Strega
Larger
Strega
Author: Andrew H. Vachss

Book Information
Publisher: New Amer Library (Mm)
Book Type: Paperback
Rating:
7

ISBN-13: 9780451151797 - ISBN-10: 0451151798
Publication Date: 2/2/1988


Other Versions of this Book: Hardcover, Paperback

Book Description:
Andrew Vachss's implacable private eye has a new client, Strega. She wants Burke to find an obscene photograph—and that search will take him into the ocean that flows just beneath the city, an ocean whose currents are flesh and money, the anguish of children and the pleasure of twisted adults. It is a place that Burke can visit only at the risk of his sanity and his life. But between the power of Strega and his own sense of justice, there is no turning back.

In Strega one of our most acclaimed crime writers gives us a thriller that might have been imagined by Dante. For this is a tour of hell with no stops left out, conducted by a novelist who writes with the authority of the damned.

Members who requested this book also requested:

Similar books to this author and title:
Blue Belle (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard) (Burke, Bk 3)Hard Candy (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)Blossom (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)


Genres:

Top Member Book Reviews

Megan P. (4ntrvlr) reviewed 8/25/2009...
+ read 3 more book reviews by this member

1 member(s) found this review helpful.

I picked this book up in the shelf of books left behind by visitors to a resort in Hawaii. You couldn't have had a greater contrast! The book is set in NYC and deals with seamy and obscene acts. The "hero" is the detective that criminals go to when they need their problems investigated. This is the hardest-boiled of hard boiled detectives and he's faced with child exploitation on lots of levels. I found the writing compelling and the book unforgettable if you have the stomach for it.


Book Wiki
Common Title
Series
Original Publication Date (YYYY-MM-DD)
People/Characters
Real Places
Fictional Places
Important Events
Awards and Honors