Book description
Andrew Vachss's implacable private eye has a new client, Strega. She wants Burke to find an obscene photograph—and that search will take him into the ocean that flows just beneath the city, an ocean whose currents are flesh and money, the anguish of children and the pleasure of twisted adults.…
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1 author picked Strega as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I loved this book because it pitted the criminal’s warped psyche against that of the private detective.
Would the latter be willing to compromise his own moral code to stop the heinous actions of the former? How far is anyone willing to go not only to confront evil but to eliminate it?
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