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Terminal

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Terminal

Andrew Vachss is a lawyer who represents children and youths exclusively. His many novels and two collections of short stories have been translated into twenty languages, and his work has appeared in Parade, Esquire, Playboy, and The New York Times, among other publications. A native New Yorker, he divides his time etween the city of his birth and the Pacific Northwest.

The dedicated Web site for Andrew Vachss and his work is

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Title of ebook: Terminal
ISBN: 9780375425288
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Internet download file size: 287 kb
Pages: 256
Released online for download: 09-25-2007
Author of eBook: Vachss, Andrew

Terminal

A Burke Novel
I got to the job site a couple of hours early. The kind of work I do, you show up too late, sometimes you don’t get to go home when it’s over.

Gigi was already planted in his spot, his enormous body mass taking up most of a wooden bench, a half-empty pitcher of beer on a little table to his right. The behemoth had a perfect sight-line on the front door, but his tiny eyes were too deeply flesh-pouched for me to tell where he was looking. Wrapped in a faded gray jersey pulled over drawstring pants of the same material, he looked like a moored battleship.

I found a stool at the far end of the bar. The guy behind the stick had a little slice of forehead and less chin. His eyes showed signs of life—I guessed somewhere around geranium level.

I ordered a shot—nobody does brand names in a joint like this. The inbred blinked a couple of times, then brought me some brown liquid. I asked him for a glass of water. He stared at me for a minute. You could see his mind working—it wasn’t a pretty sight. Finally, enough tumblers fell into place. He reached under the bar and came up with a glass t ... read full excerpt from Terminal ebook