eddie starts stealing cars long before he's old enough to get a license, driven by a force so compelling that he never questions, just obeys. After a series of false starts...more

From a writer whose novels have been acclaimed for their unflinching exploration of evil comes a brilliant collection of short stories -- some never before published -- that ...more

From the author of the acclaimed Burke private-eye series come an ambitious and chilling novel that shows us not only what evil is, but where it comes from. For Shella is ...more

Burke is an ex-con with many ways of earning a buck and his own code of honor: he only does private eye work if the money and the client are right. Strega is an icy, beautiful...more

Andrew Vachss' brilliant, steel-edged anti-hero--the P.I. called Burke--is back on familiar ground: the hellish lower depths of New York City, where child abuse is just the ...more

A beautiful outlaw hires Burke to shield one of her charges from a vengeful ex with fetishes for Nazism and torture. But the stalker has a protector who can shut down her ...more

The murder of his bisexual girlfriend at a gay-rights rally leaves Burke with only one choice: revenge. But he has competition: someone going by the name Homo erectus has ...more

When urban fringe dweller Burke goes on an assignment to trade cash for a missing child, he's drawn into a trap designed with bullets and blood. Now his beloved dog Pansy is ...more

In this hallucinatory novel, an automobile provides the hellish tableau in which Vaughan, a "TV scientist” turned "nightmare angel of the highways,” experiments ...more

The year 2005 marks Ayn Rand's Centennial Year. The astounding story of a man that said that he would stop the motor of the world-and did. Tremendous in scope, breathtaking ...more

Cannery Row...more

"Cry, the Beloved Country is a beautifully told and profoundly compassionate story of the Zulu pastor Stephen Kumalo and his son Absalom, set in the troubled and changing ...more

"If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong ...more

Ian Mcewan's symphonic novel of love and war, childhood and class, guilt and forgiveness provides all the satisfaction of a brilliant narrative and the provocation we...more

In 1942, Lawrence Pritchard Waterhouse - mathematical genius and young Captain in the U.S. Navy - is assigned to Detachment 2702. It is an outfit so secret that only a handful...more

Propelled by the same superb instinct for storytelling that made The Kite Runner a beloved classic, A Thousand Splendid Suns is at once an incredible chronicle of thirty years...more