Mortal Lock

By: Andrew Vachss

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Paperback | 7 May 2013 | Edition Number 1

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400 Pages

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20.3 x 13.3 x 2.3

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A VINTAGE CRIME/BLACK LIZARD ORIGINAL

A hit man stalks his mark at a race track. A sociopath crosses every moral boundary to become a published author. An ex-mercenary obsessively defends his "perimeter" from a dangerous interloper. A man for hire grudgingly accepts help from a teenage girl to track an online predator. In a dystopian future, young people struggle for survival underground, forming themselves into vicious gangs with only the graffiti of the "last journalists" accepted as truth. Andrew Vachss collects twenty tight, powerful stories--all from the past decade of his career, including some now published for the first time--along with an original screenplay. Together, they form Mortal Lock, a searing portrait of the criminal underworld, with both its depravity and humanity on display.

Industry Reviews

"A collection of white-hot short stories.... The baddest noir stylist of them all digs into his archives from the past 15 years and comes up with 20 visits to hell." --Kirkus Reviews

"Vachss's reverence for storytelling is evident in the blunt beauty of his language." --Chicago Sun-Times

"Vachss is a contemporary master. . . Decidedly hard-boiled, his prose is lean, tough-edged, and brittle." --The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

"To read Andrews Vachss at his best is to take a ride on the dark side, where the plight of the oppressed and vulnerable . . . becomes the catalyst for revenge-fueled street justice." --Los Angeles Times

"Many writers try to cover the same ground as Vachss. A handful are as good. None are better." --People

"Vachss's stories . . . burn with righteous rage and transfer a degree of that rage to the reader." --The Washington Post Book World

"Writing in a style so sleekly engineered that it purrs when you pop the hood, Vachss gives us such a smooth ride that it's easy to forget someone is driving this thing." --The New York Times Book Review

"Vachss is red-hot and as serious as a punctured lung." --Playboy

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