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Flood (Burke Series Book 1) (English Edition) Formato Kindle

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Burke's newest client is a woman named Flood, who has the face of an angel, the body of a high-priced stripper, and the skills of a professional executioner.  She wants Burke to find a monster for her—so she can kill him with her bare hands.

In this cauterizing thriller, Andrew Vachss's renegade investigator teams up with a lethally gifted avenger to follow a child's murderer through the catacombs of New York, where every alley is blind and the penthouses are as dangerous as the basements.  Fearfully knowing, crackling with narrative tension, and written in prose as forceful as a hollow-point slug, Flood is Burke at his deadliest—and Vachss at the peak of his form.

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    18 dicembre 2001
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"Hard-boiled fiction at its best."- The Chicago Tribune Book World

"Vachss's tough guy writing style grabs you by the hair and jerks you to attention."- Detroit Free Press

"An extraordinary thriller... Vachss never flinches from the horror."- Washington Post Book World

"Burke would eat Spade and Marlowe for breakfast, not even spitting out the bones. [He] is one tough, mean, pray-to-God-you-don't-meet-him hombre."-Boston Herald

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Andrew Vachss’s many books include the Burke novels and two previous collections of short stories. His books have been translated into twenty languages, and his work has appeared in Parade, Antaeus, Esquire, Playboy, and The New York Times, among other publications. He died in 2021.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B000QCS9XC
  • Editore ‏ : ‎ Vintage Crime/Black Lizard (18 dicembre 2001)
  • Lingua ‏ : ‎ Inglese
  • Dimensioni file ‏ : ‎ 1184 KB
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  • Memo ‏ : ‎ Su Kindle Scribe
  • Lunghezza stampa ‏ : ‎ 369 pagine
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5,0 su 5 stelle Great author!
Recensito in Canada il 17 settembre 2017
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Great book by a great author. I have read every book he has written and I was never disappointed.
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T. Deegan
5,0 su 5 stelle Hard-hitting introduction to an interesting anti-hero
Recensito nel Regno Unito il 19 marzo 2019
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This is the introductory novel to Burke. He is a complicated man, you quickly realise that he lives outside the law, is a career criminal and rubs shoulders with the lowest and most unpleasant forms of life in American society. You are slower to discover how he ended up like this, his life story unfolds in small pieces throughout the series.
I got given this as a present age 15. At first I thought it was wierd way out fiction. Well it's fiction but in fact Vachss was ahead of his time in being upfront and blunt about child abuse. And boy he spares nobody and nothing in his depictions on the depravity and nastiness that we inflict upon each other, and upon our children.
It's a good book. The series slowly gets better for the first six or so. They are all well worth reading.
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Georg Gitzinger
5,0 su 5 stelle Kult!
Recensito in Germania il 20 luglio 2013
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Der offizielle Beginn der Burke-Serie von Andrew Vachss. Ein eigenes Krimi-Universum mit harten Stories und ebensolchen Figuren. Der Roman "A bomb built in hell", deutsch: "Eisgott", erzählt die Vorgeschichte.
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Jana L.Perskie
5,0 su 5 stelle "FLOOD" - A Novel Of Revenge - OUTSTANDING!!!
Recensito negli Stati Uniti il 2 febbraio 2005
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"Flood" is Andrew Vachss' first novel featuring Burke, the hard-boiled, in-your-face, ex-con detective, who still isn't sure on which side of the law he prefers to operate. Abandoned at birth, father and mother unknown, Burke has no real first name. "Baby boy" is the name on his birth certificate. He is a survivor. He's also a stand-up guy. The novel is set in 1980s NYC, before Mayor Guiliani came to office and cleaned up the mean streets - or tried to. I have read a few other Burke books and became so fascinated with this complex character, and with the strange folks who people his world and call him" friend," that I wanted to read this first book in the series to get a better sense of how he was developed. If you are a Vachss/Burke fan, or become one, I would suggest that you try to read the books in order. Of course, every novel stands on its own, independent of the others, but the growth and development of the characters are continual. There are also references to past events, and for a richer reading experience it is helpful to know the history. If you're just looking for a good read, and not interested in becoming a Burke maven, then by all means, read at random.

"Flood" is one hard-hitting novel, reminiscent of crime fiction in the 1940s and 50s, though much more disturbing. Burke is our narrator. And the narrative, at times, goes off on a tangent, like his thought processes. Our protagonist is a meticulous man. He always returns to make his point. I think this occasional stream of consciousness is very effective and enhances Burke's persona. Vachss still manages to maintain a tight writing style throughout. Everything and everyone comes under Burke's cynical, seen-it-all scrutiny. I have never learned more about the underworld and the seamier side of life, the one most people rarely observe, than in this compelling tale. Burke's expert eyes take in details of life on the street that mine never would. His gritty urban world is one where "citizens" dwell side-by-side with "maggots."

Flood, a young woman with an attitude and a black belt in karate, hires Burke to track down a freak, Martin Howard Wilson, a.k.a. The Cobra. He is a vicious pedophile, at the very least, and responsible for killing her best friend's child. She has sword a blood oath to kill this degenerate, but she has to find him first. That's where our man comes into the picture. Flood will become an extremely important person in Burke's life and her presence in this novel is a powerful one.

Vachss populates Burke's world with a colorful assortment of characters, and I am just crazy about all of them. Max the Silent, a mute, 20th century Mongolian warrior with creative ways of communicating; Pansy, another warrior of another species - she's a Neapolitan mastiff, just like the kind that came over the Alps with Hannibal; the Mole, a pasty-faced genius who lives in a bunker beneath a high-tech junkyard; the Prophet, a scam artist who speaks in rhyme; Mama Wong, group doyenne - a Chinese Jewish mother and restaurateur, "keeps her prices high and the ambiance foul to discourage yuppies." She cares for the gang and holds Burke's stash; Michelle, a gorgeous transvestite who needs to "break out;" Mouse who continues to exploit his one successful scam "despite a lengthy sojourn in the federal joint;" Maurice the bookie, who Burke speaks to almost daily, due to his appreciation for all things equestrian; I should add here that our hero drives a souped-up Plymouth, another important character. It usually looks like it's been painted with rust. That's the fresh coat of primer it almost always sports - "the Mole makes sure to change the car's color after it is used on a job."

In "Flood," published in 1985, Andrew Vachss began to publicly address the plight of kidnapped and abused children - way before the era of Amber Alerts and photographs of missing kids on milk cartons. Mr. Vachss is a lawyer, who specialized in prosecuting child abuse cases. He has worked as a federal investigator in sexually transmitted diseases, a caseworker in New York, and managed a maximum-security prison for violent juvenile offenders. He was also deeply involved in the relief effort in Biafra, now Nigeria. Vachss calls the child protective movement "a war," and considers his writing as powerful a weapon as his litigation. He openly admits that he writes about the abuse of children because he wants to raise people's awareness of what's going on, and he'll reach a wider audience with fiction.

"Flood" has some of the toughest prose and most intriguing characters around - an absolutely riveting read!!
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A. Trotter
4,0 su 5 stelle Darkly funny
Recensito negli Stati Uniti il 27 ottobre 2002
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This is the first in the Burke series. I read the second (didn't even know they were a series at the time) when I was a teen... you really don't need the first to read the second... Anyways, I read it, and thought "yes". Burke is a con artist, an ocasional murderer, a paranoid (but they're really after him) and a theif. He lives on the edges of the gene pool, where the scum grows thick and green. He also, incedentaly, hates loaths and despises child molesters and abusers in general. Voilla, a story is born. Flood, as the first book, is also the first of several tough sexy women, all physically different but all sharing similar charactistcs (Vachss doesn't deal in innocence much, unless it's in how it was taken away).
Andrew Vachss became somewhat of a target of controversy for writing these books; some people say he's capitalizing on child abuse, others think he should be sainted for drawing such unflattering attention to it & campaigning against it. Personaly, I give less than a smidge for the politics of my authors; if I had to research the backgrounds of everyone who writes the books I read I'd never bother to read. I generaly just judge a book on how it was written. And I really, really like these books. They crack me up (ok, so some people seem to think they're morbid and cynical. So?) and [annoys me]at the same time.
If there's one thing about this series that gets to me it's a sameness about the women as Vachss writes them. Not a physical sameness... he's good about that. And as characters, they stand out vividly in mind. But... while Vachss characterizes his main people extremely well (I love Michelle and the Mole) he doesn't give as much depth to the ones who arn't sticking around. They tell their stories and step offstage.
The stories get more complex later in the series, and better, which is why this one - as simple, prefect and sweet as it is - gets only 4 stars. I'd call it 4.5, but there's no catagory for half stars.
People with a low threshhold for the really grim stuff in life should read these in moderation.
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