{"product_id":"hard-candy-isbn-9780679761693","title":"Hard Candy","description":"In this mercilessly compelling thriller, Burke—the private eye, sting artist, and occasional hit man who metes out a cruelly ingenious vengeance on those who victimize children—is up against a soft-spoken messiah, who may be rescuing runaways or recruiting them for his own hideous purposes. But in doing so Burke becomes a target for an entire Mafia family, a whore with a heart of cyanide, and a contract killer as implacable as a heat-seeking missile. Written with Vachss's signature narrative overdrive—and his unnerving familiarity with the sub-basement of American crime—\u003cb\u003eHard Candy\u003c\/b\u003e is vintage Burke.\"The characters and events are as sharply defined as if they were etched in steel. The prose is short and choppy, like the ticking of a time bomb about to explode.\" —\u003ci\u003eSeattle Post-Intelligencer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Torrid, gritty, frightening, compelling.\" —\u003ci\u003eThe Cleveland Plain Dealer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Burke fills a void.... With his soiled white hat, this Lone Ranger...asks difficult questions while shining light into the darkest recesses.\" —\u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"There's no way to put a [Vachss book] down once you've begun.... The plot hooks are engaging and the one-liners pierce like bullets.\" —\u003ci\u003eDetroit Free Press\u003c\/i\u003eAndrew 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 \u003ci\u003eParade, Antaeus, Esquire, Playboy,\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times,\u003c\/i\u003e among other publications. He died in 2021.","brand":"Vintage Crime\/Black Lizard","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46301631086821,"sku":"NP9780679761693","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780679761693.jpg?v=1767728704","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/hard-candy-isbn-9780679761693","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}