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 thriller, Andrew Vachss's
renegade private eye 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.