A pulse-quickening new crime novel featuring Burke -- scam artist, private investigator, sometime killer -- whose sole passion is defending children who fall victim to New York City's darker appetites. Footsteps of the Hawk finds Burke the pawn in a conspiracy involving two rogue cops and a grisly string of sex crimes.
"Burke is the toughest talking first-person narrator since Mike Hammer."
LOS ANGELES TIMES "Vachss... writes hypnotically violent prose."
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
"In the first rank of American crime
