Sacrifice - Softcover

Vachss, Andrew

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0333574966 ISBN 13: 9780333574966

Publisher: Macmillan Company, London, 1992

Synopsis

In New York city, Burke stumbles on a brand of cruelty that is new even to him: a child programmed by fear to kill other children. To save the boy from the State, he goes after the real killers, the parents, and finds himself in the world of urban voodoo. The author also wrote "Flood" and "Strega".

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From the Inside Flap

--could turn a gifted little boy into a murderous thing that calls itself "Satan's Child"? In search of an answer, Burke travels from a festering welfare hotel to a neat frame house where a voodoo priestess presides over a congregation of assassins.
From the Trade Paperback edition.

About the Author

Andrew Vachss, an attorney in private practice specializing in juvenile justice and child abuse, is the country’s best recognized and most widely sought after spokesperson on crimes against children. He is also a bestselling novelist and short story writer, whose works include Flood (1985), the novel which first introduced Vachss’ series character Burke, Strega (1987), Choice of Evil (1999), and Dead and Gone (2000). His short stories have appeared in Esquire, Playboy, and The Observer, and he is a contributor to ABA Journal, Journal of Psychohistory, New England Law Review, The New York Times, and Parade.

Vachss has worked as a federal investigator in sexually transmitted diseases, a caseworker in New York, and a professional organizer. He was the director of an urban migrants re-entry center in Chicago and another for ex-cons in Boston. After managing a maximum-security prison for violent juvenile offenders, he published his first book, a textbook, about the experience. He was also deeply involved in the relief effort in Biafra, now Nigeria.

For ten years, Vachss’ law practice combined criminal defense with child protection, until, with the success of his novels, it segued exclusively into the latter, which is his passion. Vachss calls the child protective movement “a war,” and considers his writing as powerful a weapon as his litigation.
From the Trade Paperback edition.

About this edition

• Publisher: Macmillan Company, London
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0333574966
• ISBN 13: 9780333574966
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288