Excerpts from Andrew Vachss’ “A Tout’s Guide to Crime Fiction” As originally published in Wig Wag Magazine, February 1991 The most significantly stupid (and stubbornly prevailing) myth about crime fiction is that there is The Way. This literary Tao-ism always…
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Audiobooksby Andrew Vachss The Burke Series || Stand-Alone Novels || Cross and Crew || Aftershock || Short-Story Collections Aftershock Aftershock Read by Natalie Ross & Phil Gigante Dreamscape, June 11, 2013 Unabridged, on audio CD and MP3 CD …
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Collaborationswith Andrew Vachss click cover images for more information Veil’s Visit A Taste of Hap and Leonard A collection of short stories and excerpts by Joe R. Lansdale and Andrew Vachss Andrew Vachss’ CROSS Story by Andrew Vachss and James…
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Forgiveness When you finally begin to place the tiles on the mosaic of your journey, you will learn that the very last task is renunciation of the Perpetrator’s Holy Mantra, that pernicious cliché which commands: “If you ever hope to…
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Reviewed by Andrew Vachss whose own view of reviews can be read here Soft Maniacs (Estep), Black Book (Fall 1999) Widow’s Web (Lyons), Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (8/1/93) The Misbegotten Son (Olsen), New York Times (3/14/93) Lethal Passage (Larson), Los Angeles Times…
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Andrew Vachss’ CROSSstory by Andrew Vachss and James Colbert Script by Chet Williamson All cover art by Geofrey Darrow please click on covers to enlarge “EXTRACTION” CROSS# 0 October, 1995 CROSS is the story of a “family” of mercenaries, bonded…
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Trojan HorsesBorn BadA collection of short stories by Andrew Vachss “We are taken not simply into the mean streets but into a subterranean nightmare world, a place as compelling and morally challenging as any to be found in the best…
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Proving ItAn Andrew Vachss Audiobook Collection Click to listen to DOPE FIEND as performed by BURT REYNOLDS from Proving It Andrew Vachss’ writing has been described as “red-hot and serious as a punctured lung” (Playboy), “hypnotically violent … made up…
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Trojan HorsesEverybody Pays A collection of short stories by Andrew Vachss “Vachss is a contemporary master.”—The Atlanta Journal-Constitution “Vachss’ writing is like a dark roller coaster ride of fear, love and hate.”—The Times- Picayune “The best detective fiction being written…
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The Life-Style Violent Juvenileby Andrew Vachss Following is an excerpt from Andrew Vachss’ first book, The Life-Style Violent Juvenile, a textbook he wrote in 1979. If you’d like more information, click here. You can view online the architectural guides for…