Everybody Pays: Stories

A hit man defies the confines of a life sentence to avenge his sister's batterer. An immaculately dressed man hires a street gang to extract his daughter from a Central American prison, for reasons as mysterious as they are deadly. A two-bit graffiti artist with a taste for Nazi-ganda finds himself face-to-face with three punks out to make a mark of their own--literally--with a tattoo needle.

From neo-noir master Andrew Vachss comes Everybody Pays, 38 white-knuckle rides into a netherworld of pederasts and prostitutes, stick-up kids and fall guys--where private codes of crime and punishment pulsate beneath a surface system of law and order, and our moral compass spins frighteningly out of control. Here is the street-grit prose that has earned Vachss comparisons to Chandler, Cain, and Hammett--and the ingenious plot twists that transform the double-cross into an expression of retribution, the dark deed into a thing of beauty. Electrifying and enigmatic, Everybody Pays is a sojourn into the nature of evil itself--a trip made all the more frightening by its proximity to our front doorstep.

Author: Andrew Vachss
Publisher: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Published: 09/07/1999
Pages: 384
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.08h x 5.28w x 0.92d
ISBN: 9780375707438


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 09/13/1999 pg. 64
Kirkus Reviews 09/01/1999 pg. 1351
Booklist 09/15/1999 pg. 239
New York Times 12/19/1999 pg. 22

About the Author
Vachss has been a federal investigator in sexually transmitted diseases, a social caseworker, and a labor organizer, and has directed a maximum-security prison for youthful offenders. Now a lawyer in private practice, he represents children and youth exclusively. He is the author of numerous novels, including the burke series, two collection of short stories, and a wide variety of other material including song lyrics, poetry, graphic novels, and a children's book for adults. His books have been translated into twenty different languages; and his work has appeared in Parade, Antaeus, Esquire, The New York Times, and numerous other forums. He lives and works in New York City and Pacific Northwest.

The dedicated Web site for Vachss and his work is www.vachss.com


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