Safe HouseSafe House
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Book, 1998
Current format, Book, 1998, 1st ed, No Longer Available.Book, 1998
Current format, Book, 1998, 1st ed, No Longer Available. Offered in 0 more formatsThe new novel from Andrew Vachss puts Burke - hard-core career criminal and man-for-hire - up against a new breed of predator: stalkers. Some obsessed, some deranged, all dangerous.
Burke's old prison pal Hercules, hired by a shadowy network that runs a safehouse for stalking victims, botched the job, and one of the stalkers is dead. To save his partner, Burke has to penetrate the network, and he makes a deal with the boss, Crystal Beth, a woman as obsessed as the stalkers. But Crystal Beth has a stalker of her own, an extortionist who threatens to bring down her entire network unless she surrenders one of the women she's hiding.
When Burke learns that the extortionist might be government-issue, and that the stalker he's protecting is a member of a neo-Nazi cell with plans to make Oklahoma City look like a pipe bomb, his survivalist instincts go on full alert. And when it comes down to making his own house and his family-of-choice safe, Burke turns lethal.
Burke, the ex-convict, urban survivalist, and career criminal, is enlisted by a secretive, tight-knit organization to capture a stalker after women and children who seems to enjoy protection from the topmost level of the government. 35,000 first printing. Tour.
Ex-convict and urban survivalist Burke is enlisted by a secretive, tight-knit organization to capture a stalker after women and children who seems to enjoy protection from the topmost level of the government
Burke's old prison pal Hercules, hired by a shadowy network that runs a safehouse for stalking victims, botched the job, and one of the stalkers is dead. To save his partner, Burke has to penetrate the network, and he makes a deal with the boss, Crystal Beth, a woman as obsessed as the stalkers. But Crystal Beth has a stalker of her own, an extortionist who threatens to bring down her entire network unless she surrenders one of the women she's hiding.
When Burke learns that the extortionist might be government-issue, and that the stalker he's protecting is a member of a neo-Nazi cell with plans to make Oklahoma City look like a pipe bomb, his survivalist instincts go on full alert. And when it comes down to making his own house and his family-of-choice safe, Burke turns lethal.
Burke, the ex-convict, urban survivalist, and career criminal, is enlisted by a secretive, tight-knit organization to capture a stalker after women and children who seems to enjoy protection from the topmost level of the government. 35,000 first printing. Tour.
Ex-convict and urban survivalist Burke is enlisted by a secretive, tight-knit organization to capture a stalker after women and children who seems to enjoy protection from the topmost level of the government
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- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, c1998.
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