A Bomb Built in Hell

Before Burke, before Cross, Andrew Vachss created Wesley- a ruthless assassin who would stop at nothing to take out his targets. A Bomb Built in Hell is Wesley's story, in print for the very first time.

Before Burke, Andrew Vachss created Wesley, the ultimate ice-man. A Bomb Built in Hell is Wesley's story.

While doing time for manslaughter, Wesley meets prison boss Carmine Trentoni, an Old School gangster who no longer believes in the blood-oath hetookyears ago. Carmine's triple life sentence hasn't cut him off from all his outside sources-he has waited with the patience of stone for someone capable of absorbing his knowledge . . . and carrying out his sworn vengeance. Wesley emerges from prison as the perfect hit man- calculating, deadly, and ice-cold. He follows Carmine's instructions-locate"the last of us," one"Mr. Petraglia,"thenassassinate a Chinatown gang boss and a Mafia chief-bothhad overstepped theirbounds. But then Wesley findshis ownmission- As he begins to see the root of all he has learned to hate, he and a youth just out of reform school, known only as The Kid, begin to take out political targets. In a final burst of understanding, Wesley decides to leave The Kid behind. But not before he writes his own suicide note . . . in dynamite.