Mask Market: A Burke Novel Vintage Crime/Black Li

“A gritty, blunt and back-against-the-wall story of betrayal and death.”—Dallas Morning News“Andrew Vachss is a contemporary master.” —The Atlanta Journal–Constitution“Burke is a hero of our timesÉlord of the asphalt jungle.” —Washington Post Book World“The hardest-boiled crime fiction this side of Sing Sing.” —USA Today “Vachss seems bottomlessly knowledgeable about the depth and variety of human twistedness.”—The New York Times“There's no way to put a [Vachss book] down once you've begun.” —Detroit Free Press“Many writers try to cover the same ground as Vachss. A handful are as good. None are better.”—People“Vachss’s reverence for storytelling is evident in the blunt beauty of his language.”—Chicago Sun–Times“The books of Andrew Vachss are much more than great entertainment. They are a fierce crusade for all victims who can’t fight back, especially the imperiled children to whom Vachss has devoted his considerable talent and his life.”—Carl Hiaasen“Vachss is in the first rank of American crime writers.”—The Plain Dealer“The best detective fiction being written . . . Add a stinging social commentary [and] a Celinesque journey into darkness, and we have an Andrew Vachss, one of our most important writers.”—Martha Grimes“The New York Burke inhabits is not borrowed from anybody and shimmers on the page as gaudily and scarily as it does on the streets.” —New York Magazine