Andrew Vachss sa venuje právu a špecializuje sa na zastupovanie detí a mládeže. Jeho rozsiahla kariéra zahŕňala prácu v sociálnych službách, ako federálny vyšetrovateľ a riaditeľ väznice pre mladistvých. Tieto skúsenosti hlboko formujú jeho literárnu tvorbu, ktorá preniká do temných zákutí ľudskej duše a sociálnej nespravodlivosti. Vachss vo svojich dielach skúma zložité etické otázky s nekompromisným pohľadom a jedinečným rozprávačským štýlom, čím si získal uznanie čitateľov po celom svete.
Set on the streets of New York, this is the fourth crime adventure featuring Burke, who becomes a gun for hire to track down a man who's holding under-age kids to ransom. This novel follows "Flood", "Strega" and "Blue Belle".
Burke is one of the most cold-blooded yet strangely honorable heroes in the history of crime fiction, an outlaw who makes his living by preying on the most vicious of New York City's bottom-feeders, those who thrive on the suffering of children. In Andrew Vachss's tautly engrossing novel Burke is given a purse full of dirty money to find the infamous Ghost Van that is cutting a lethal swath among the teenage prostitutes in the hood. He also gets help in the form of a stripper named Belle, whose moves on the runway are outclassed only by what she can do in a getaway car. But not even Burke is prepared for the evil that is behind the Ghost Van or for the sheer menace of its guardian, a cadaverous karate expert who enjoys killing so much that he has named himself after death. A book so ferocious, with characters so venal and actions so breakneck, that you dare not get in the way...