Terminal: A Burke Novel

When the former shot-caller of the country's most feared white supremacist prison gang contacts Burke, he comes with references ... and the promise of a huge score. Terminally ill, the ex-con needs major cash to gamble on the long-shot possibility of a cure that's available only in Switzerland. The one card he has to play is a small-time degenerate who paid for protection when they were in prison together. That professional bottom-feeder claims that he personally buried the body of a thirteen-year-old girl who had been raped, tortured, and finally killed by three rich men more than thirty years ago - and that he's holding irrefutable proof. But such a complicated extortion scheme needs the hand of a specialist crew, so Burke is offered a piece of the action.
He and his outlaw family put together a lethal plan. If they can pull it off, Burke gets the two things he lives for: money and revenge. If they can't, "terminal" could prove to be more than just one man's diagnosis.
Terminal is a blistering thriller that forces Burke back in time - to keep a blood commitment to a brother from his prison past and to avenge the cold cased rape-murder of a teenage girl.

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 www.vachss.com