Safe House, the eleventh Burke novel by Andrew Vachss, delves into the dark and gritty world of urban evil and human depravity. The story follows Burke and his crew as they are drawn into a web of extortion and mayhem surrounding a safe house for battered women run by Crystal Beth. The tension-filled plot revolves around Burke's commitment to his family, his encounters with unsavory characters, and his efforts to help those in need, all while navigating through a dangerous underworld.
Vachss' writing style in Safe House is described as hard-boiled, with staccato prose, abrupt violence, and a palpable atmosphere of urban evil. The author's focus on themes like child abuse, molestation, and the dark side of society adds depth to the narrative, making it a thrilling and engaging read for fans of noir fiction.
From The Publisher:
In Burke, Vachss gave readers of crime fiction a hero they could believe in, an avenger whose sense of justice was forged behind bars and tempered on New York's meanest streets. In this blistering new thriller, Burke is drawn into his ugliest case yet, one that involves an underground network of abused women and the sleekly ingenious stalkers who've marked them as their personal victims.
Burke's client is Crystal Beth, a beautiful outlaw with a tattoo on her face and a mission burned into her heart. She is trying to shield one of her charges from a vengeful ex with fetishes for Nazism and torture. But the stalker has a protector, someone so informed, so ruthless, and so connected that he need only make a few phone calls to shut down Crystal Beth's operation for good-and Burke along with it. Sinuous in its complexities, brutal in its momentum, Safe House is Burke at the edge of his nerve and cunning. And it's Vachss at the peak of his form.
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