'Vachss is a contemporary master.' – Atlanta Journal Constitution
'His writing has the power of a rogue elephant.' – Cleveland Plain-Dealer
'A confection from Hell- a poison pill laced with acid and wrapped in razor-edged concertina wire.' – Courier-Post (Philadelphia)
'Jolting…eerily seductive.' – Washington Times
'Each [Burke book] is as savage as Celine. And there it is, a three sentence throwaway paragraph, as pure as Euclid. I'm a sucker for such Elegance.' – Newsday
'It's wonderful. The words do leap off the page. The principal character is an original. The style is as clean as a haiku.' – Washington Post
'Andrew Vachss is unique among modern writers; no one else comes close to the raw power and intellectual ambiguity that he manifests so elegantly, so coldly.'...