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SAFE HOUSE - FIRST HARD COVER.

by Andrew Vachss.

REVIEW.

A Burke Novel. "Safe House has all the distinctive Vachss virtues--a seductive style, a thought-provoking story and the creation of an utterly convincing world. I read it compulsively, and with great pleasure." -- Richard North Patterson.

OVERVIEW: 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 ("When there's too many loose threads, somebody always weaves them into a noose"). And when it comes down to making his own house and his family-of-choice safe, Burke turns lethal.

First Printing,  ARCHIVED and SEALED in an acid-free protective book cover upon receipt here and then sealed in plastic for complete archival protection.

NY: Knopf, 1998. First Edition. 6 1/2 X 9 1/2. Hard Cover. Fine / Fine. ISBN: 0375400842