Footsteps of the Hawk Audiobook (Free)

Andrew Vachss has reinvented detective fiction for an age in which guilty secrets are obsolete and murder isn’t even well worth a news headline. And in the person of his haunted, hell-ridden personal eyesight Burke, Vachss offers given us a fresh sort of hero: a man inured to every wicked except the type that preys on children. Now Burke is certainly back, investigating an epidemic of obvious suicides among the teens of a wealthy Connecticut suburb. There he discovers a sinister connection between the anguish of the youthful and the actions of at the very top sadomasochistic underground, for whom pain and its accompanying rituals include satisfaction and power. “[Vachss’s] short sharp sentences crackle with energy; his plots are satisfyingly complex; the narratives are superbly paced, and the personas . are often pungently individual.” – Chicago Sun-Times “The people and occasions are as sharply defined as if they had been etched in metal. The prose can be short and choppy, like the ticking of a time bomb going to explode.” – Seattle Post-Intelligencer