This email just came in from Ground Zero
ANOTHER LIFE is the end of a journey that began with FLOOD, Andrew Vachss’ first novel featuring career criminal Burke and his Family of Choice. “I didn’t set out to write a series. Who but a terminal narcissist would?” the author says of his 1985 debut. But twenty-three years–and seventeen Burke novels–later, Andrew Vachss is finally bringing down the curtain on a series that has been described as “urban nightmares” by Publishers Weekly, and “strong, gritty, gut-bucket stuff” by the Chicago Tribune. Anyone who has felt a part of the family that includes recurring series characters Max, the Mole, Michelle, the Prof, Terry, Clarence, and Mama–characters the Seattle Post-Intelligencer says “are as sharply defined as if they were etched in steel”–will want to be there for the end of the journey, as best-selling, award-winning author Andrew Vachss ties up the loose ends, and sends his Family of Choice off to … ANOTHER LIFE.
I have always enjoyed reading these mysteries, which are a roman noir slice of the underbelly of life in New York City. I am going to miss Bruke and his “family of choice.”