Another Life: A Burke Novel (Thorndike Press Large Print Core Series)
Автор:Andrew H. Vachss Год: 2009 Издание: [не указанo] Страниц: 455 ISBN: 1410413829 In this blistering new novel, Burke ("lord of the Asphalt Jungle"–The Washington Post Book World) is forced into a journey that will change the lives of the urban survivalist and his outlaw family ... forever. The only person Burke has ever called "father," a legendary crime planner known throughout the underworld as the Prof, is in a coma, barely clinging to life in the off-the-books hospital where the crew stashed him after their last job went off the rails. So when Pryce, a shadow-man with deep (and very dark) government connections, offers a package–Presidential-grade medical services for the Prof and a wiped-clean slate for everyone who participates–Burke signs the contract without reading it.The two-year-old son of a Saudi prince has been kidnapped. A highly professional snatch: no errors, no forensics ... and no ransom note. Burke's job: get the kid back. Whatever it costs, whatever it takes. Pryce came to Burke because the profile concluded this was the work of a pedophile...