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    Blossom

    Written by Andrew Vachss

    Narrated by Phil Gigante

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    About this audiobook

    In the figure of Burke, Andrew Vachss has given contemporary crime fiction one of its most mesmerizing characters. An abused child raised in orphanages, foster homes, and prisons, Burke is a career criminal and outlaw who steals and scams for a living. But he draws the line at the psychopaths and predators who stalk children. Sometimes he draws that line in blood.

    In Blossom, an old cellmate has summoned Burke to a fading Indiana mill town, where a young boy is charged with a crime he didn't commit and a twisted serial sniper has turned a local lover's lane into a killing field. And it's here that Burke meets Blossom, the brilliant, beautiful young woman who has her own reasons for finding the murderer - and her own idea of vengeance. Dense with atmosphere, savagely convincing, this is Vachss at his uncompromising best.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateApr 15, 2010
    ISBN9781441821133
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    • 4/5
      Burke gets a little out of his comfort zone, but still manages to get the job done.
      Good story but the writing was a bit jumpy and incomplete at times.
    • 3/5
      You run a risk when you remove a series character from his environment. You take away a large part of what the reader comes to the book expecting. Vachss attempts to counteract this by spending some time watching Burke, his protagonist, operate in and around the New York City cesspool before heading out to Indiana to help a “brother.” In Burke’s world a brother is someone for whom there nothing you will not do. Burke is asked to determine whether a kid living in his brother’s house is the sniper who has been shooting up the local lover’s lane. Once determining the kid’s innocence, for various other reasons Burke sticks around to find the shooter.The fifth Burke novel is the least successful so far. Part of the reason may stem from reading a 1990 novel in 2016. The elements of human depravity that Vachss routinely exposes was virtually unknown then; today, sadly, they are common knowledge. The novel’s other drawback is structural. Vachss had taken a turn toward scattershot chapters. There are chapters that consist of ten or so lines, others of less than fifty words. 186 chapters form the book. The results? Scenes are no longer built and atmosphere is lost.I’ll have to get used to it because writers seldom go back from this. Luckily, Vachss is such a great storyteller that I know I’ll be entertained regardless. But is greatness still obtainable? Since the series--not particular eras or individual books but the entire series--is so highly regarded, I have to think so. Either way I’ll read them all. Burke and his family of friends are endlessly fascinating.
    • 4/5
      I absolutely love this series. It's so amazingly gorey and makes your toes curl up just reading it! It's very down-and-dirty and can be quite graphic...but is a really fast read too.