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    Dead and Gone
    Audiobook10 hours

    Dead and Gone

    Written by Andrew Vachss

    Narrated by Phil Gigante

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    About this audiobook

    Career criminal Burke's skill at working the feathery edges of the law are legendary, and this isn't the first time he's been hired to trade cash for an abducted kid. But when the meet turns out to be an ambush, Burke's partner is killed and he's left for dead. Dumped on the steps of the ER, Burke hovers between life and death. While the police - and whoever wants him dead - are circling closer, biding their time.

    Burke escapes the hospital, his face forever changed by the surgery that saved his life. The whisper-stream mutters that he's dead, and he certainly is gone. From New York, anyway. Burke is on the hunt, knowing he has to find whoever wanted him dead to protect his own life. And avenge his partner.

    Unable to call on his own family for assistance, Burke goes into his past for help. All the way back. All the way back to his origins as a "child of the secret." The trail starts in Chicago, continues into the Pacific Northwest, then to the remote mountains of New Mexico. And ends in a place that exists only in the dreams of the darkest degenerates on earth.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateDec 29, 2010
    ISBN9781441824080
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    • 3/5
      Vachss writes about extreme child abuse in a genre form. Suffice to say, there are no other writers like him. He takes a form used for mostly fun and escape and uses it to talk about characters and situations that are very, very heavy. He comes very close to creating something completely new. Here, in Dead and Gone, his plot seems stuck in neutral for about two hundred pages dedicated to back story and the quirky but somewhat cliched romance between Burke, the star of the series, and Gem, a woman with unspecified underworld ties. Once the plot final resumes, there is a deus ex machina feel to the resolution. All that said, Vachss is a writer worth a try as you will never encounter another like him.
    • 2/5
      I always forget why it is I don't like Andrew Vachss novels. I will go years without reading one and then think, "Hey, why don't I read another Vachss novel?" Then I'll read one and remember, "Oh yeah, his endings are always inexplicable and unsatisfying and never seem to tie up a single loose end. And don't forget how rushed they are."I think about that and then I think, "Oh man, his female characters are also caricatures. No one writes women worse than Vachss with the possible exception of men who write super hero comics."And then I will go a couple of year without reading Vachss and will find myself in a bookstore and somehow will have forgotten all of the above.That faulty memory is how I came to read this Vachss offering and I suspect in a couple of years I will repeat this recursive dumbassery of mine. I hope writing all of this down helps me remember but it probably won't. Sigh...Anyway, crappy, rushed and unsatisfying ending and if Gem doesn't make you want to vomit at least twice (hi, hot Asian chick dressed as a sexy schoolgirl is a fucking cliche unworthy of anyone outside of derivative porn, thanks!), then I probably need to challenge you to a thumb wrestling match, best two out of three. You could do worse than read this book but you'd really have to work at it.
    • 4/5
      This was one of the most gut-wrenching novels I have recently read best describes "Dead and Gone" by Andrew Vachss. "Dead and Gone" was my first novel from Mr. Vachss and was recommended by a number of librarything and Amazon connoisseurs, especially those who favored testosterone flavored literature. Suffice to say that Mr. Vachss captures the essence, nuance, flavor and cadence of modern noir/hard-boiled detective novels, even though his main character, Burke, is not a detective. Mr. Vachss' signature is in capturing the delicate balance between slick and pretentious like few writers I've come across. And he circumscribes expertly many of the visceral feelings of those who have been hurt beyond repair. Were there times I felt he crossed that line into being ostentatious, yes. However, the novel packs a punch like few others and I will be perusing the shelves for another jolt.