Andrew H Vachss
3) Aftershock
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353 pages ; 25 cm
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English
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When the shining star of the girls' softball team shoots and kills the most popular boy in school, Dolly, friend to the local teenage girls, asks her husband Dell to uncover the true motive behind the inexplicable crime.
4) The weight
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263 pages ; 25 cm
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English
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Trapped between his integrity and selling out, Sugar does the only thing he knows: He takes the weight for a crime he didn't commit--while protecting those who worked with him on a successful jewelry heist. But when he gets out, the mastermind behind the robbery, Sully, leans on him for a favor. Sully asks Sugar to go to Florida on a job. He suspects that there's more to this job than what Sully is telling him. But nothing he suspects or imagines...
5) Sign Wave
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253 pages ; 25 cm.
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English
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When a calculating predator threatens his loved ones, mercenary soldier Dell attempts to track down a killer who possesses an uncanny talent for disguise.
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261 pages ; 21 cm.
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English
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"The man known only as Cross and his multi-skilled team of urban mercenaries are back, this time invading one of Chicago's least desirable neighborhoods in a land-grab that has the entire underworld puzzled. Chicago--the reigning #1 city in homicides--has no shortage of deadly gangs. They all know the Cross Crew occupies a cinderblock bunker called Red 71 . . . the last place you want to go, unless you're willing to risk it being the last place you...
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xii, 241 pages ; 21 cm
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English
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Becoming Carmine Trentoni's hitman after emerging from prison, Wesley locates Pet and the two set up shop in Brooklyn, executing their assignments with finesse -- and occasionally, more explosives than are strictly called for. But Wesley isn't satisfied with his low-profile lot, and sets out to make a mark on the city that everyone will notice.
The background story of ruthless assassin Wesley traces his emergence from prison as a calculating hitman...
9) Shockwave
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253 pages ; 25 cm.
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English
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"Just before daybreak, a body washes up on a pristine beach. The dead man's skull has been bashed open, and his upper body is covered in neo-Nazi tattoos. An anonymous photographer e-mails an image of the scene to the local news, spurring the police to instantaneous response. Searching for suspects at one of the town's "homeless-by-choice" encampments, the cops pick up Homer, a "walking wounded" schizophrenic, who has been showing off a wristwatch...
18) Haiku
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285 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
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English
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Ho was a revered sensei but when his dismissive arrogance caused the death of a beloved student he renounced not only his possessions but also his role as a master and now roams the streets in search of a way to atone. Drawn by his presence a group forms around him. This searing new novel from the author of the acclaimed Burke series follows this band of homeless outcasts on a journey to recover what each has lost.