A collection of stories journeys into the heart of evil as it introduces such characters as a blues musician on the run, a team of urban mercenaries on a mission in Central America, and a martial artist struggling to be true to his name...'Vachss is a contemporary master.'--'The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
'Vachss' writing is like a dark roller coaster ride of fear, love and hate.' --'The Times- Picayune
A hit man defies the confines of a life sentence to avenge his sister's batterer. An immaculately dressed man hires a street gang to extract his daughter from a Central American prison, for reasons as mysterious as they are deadly. A two-bit graffiti artist with a taste for Nazi-ganda finds himself face-to-face with three punks out to make a mark of their own--literally--with a tattoo needle.
From neo-noir master Andrew Vachss comes Everybody Pays, 38 white-knuckle rides into a netherworld of pederasts and prostitutes, stick-up kids and fall guys--where private codes of crime and punishment pulsate beneath a surface system of law and order, and our moral compass spins frighteningly out of control. Here is the street-grit prose that has earned Vachss comparisons to Chandler, Cain, and Hammett--and the ingenious plot twists that transform the double-cross into an expression of retribution, the dark deed into a thing of beauty. Electrifying and enigmatic, Everybody Pays is a sojourn into the nature of evil itself--a trip made all the more frightening by its proximity to our front doorstep.
'Vachss [is] in the first rank of contemporary American crime writers.'--'The Kansas City Star
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