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 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. 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.
"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-God-you-don't-meet-him
hombre." --Boston Herald