Reviews"Vachss is a contemporary master."- Atlanta Journal-Constitution "Vachss writes hypnotically violent prose made up of equal parts of broken concrete blocks and razor wire."- Chicago-Sun Times "Vachss waves a powerful light across a city landscape that few writers go near and none portray so convincingly."- Los Angeles Times
Series Volume Number8
Dewey Decimal813/.54
SynopsisIn Footsteps of the Hawk Burke himself is in danger of becoming a victim. Two rogue cops are stalking him. The coolly seductive Belinda Roberts wants him to free a man charged with a grisly string of rape-murders. The brutal and half-crazy Detective Jorge Morales may be trying to frame Burke for the same crimes. What ensues is a novel of high-wire suspense and nightmarish authenticity informed by an insider's knowledge of the city where everything--from flesh to other people's cellular phone numbers--is up for sale., In Footsteps of the Hawk Burke himself is in danger of becoming a victim. Two rogue cops are stalking him. The coolly seductive Belinda Roberts wants him to free a man charged with a grisly string of rape-murders. The brutal and half-crazy Detective Jorge Morales may be trying to frame Burke for the same crimes. What ensues is a novel of high-wire suspense and nightmarish authenticity informed by an insider's knowledge of the city where everything-from flesh to other people's cellular phone numbers-is up for sale.