Andrew H. Vachss

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  • Bibliography:
    48 Books (3 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1955
  • Latest Book:
    January 2022
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Full Series List in Order

An Aftershock Novel

1 - Aftershock (Jun-2013)
2 - Shockwave (Jun-2014)
3 - Signwave (Jun-2015)

A Burke Novel

1 - Flood (Oct-1985)
2 - Strega (1987)
3 - Blue Belle (1988)
4 - Hard Candy (Jun-1989)
5 - Blossom (Jun-1991)
6 - Sacrifice (1991)
7 - Down in the Zero (Sep-1994)
8 - Footsteps of the Hawk (Sep-1995)
9 - False Allegations (Nov-1996)
10 - Safe House (Apr-1998)
11 - Choice of Evil (May-1999)
12 - Dead and Gone (Sep-2000)
13 - Pain Management (Sep-2001)
14 - Only Child (Oct-2002)
15 - Down Here (Apr-2004)
16 - Mask Market (Aug-2006)
17 - Terminal (Oct-2007)
18 - Another Life (Jan-2009)

A Cross Novel

1 - Blackjack (Jul-2012)
2 - Urban Renewal (Feb-2014)
3 - Drawing Dead (Jan-2016)

Multi-Author Series List

Famous Characters: Batman

The Ultimate Evil (Nov-1995)

Book List in Order: 48 titles

  • The Rancher's Lady

  • Flood

    A Burke Novel - 1

    Burke’s newest client is a woman named Flood, who has the face of an angel, the body of a high-priced stripper, and the skills of a professional executioner. She wants Burke to find a monster for her -- so she can kill him with her bare hands. In ...

  • Strega

    • / Private Investigator
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    A Burke Novel - 2

    It was very dirty work but Burke didn't shock easy. The lower depths of New York was his turf and he was as at home there as a shark in water. But when he was hired by Strega, a beautiful, steamily sensual woman, to recover a photo of a young boy be...

  • Blue Belle

    • / Private Investigator
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    A Burke Novel - 3

    Burke works the darkest sides of the meanest city streets. Now those streets are even more shadowed by a Ghost Van snuffing teenage prostitutes. To stop it, pimps have given Burke a war chest stuffed with dirty money, and help in the fabulous form of...

  • Hard Candy

    A Burke Novel - 4

    Now a paid assassin, Burke is on a collision course with a man named Train, who runs a 'safehouse' for kids. But when Burke learns that his suspicions about Train are right (the safehouse keeps kids in harm's way), he becomes his own gun-for-hire....

  • Sacrifice

    • / Private Investigator
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    A Burke Novel - 6

    A battered child has vanished. The trail leads down, maybe as low as Burke has ever gone, into the sleazy subbasement of morality. He's not hunting for a man but for evil in the heart of man. It takes a secret meeting with an urban voodoo queen to se...

  • Blossom

    A Burke Novel - 5

    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 livin...

  • Shella

    From the author of the acclaimed Burke private-eye series comes an ambitious and chilling novel that shows us not only what evil is, but where it comes from. For Shella is nothing less than a tour of evil's spawning ground, conducted by one of its na...

  • Born Bad

    From a writer whose novels have been acclaimed for their unflinching exploration of evil comes a brilliant collection of short stories -- some never before published -- that distill dread back down to its essence -- and inject it straight into the re...



  • Down in the Zero

    A Burke Novel - 7

    Andrew Vachss has reinvented detective fiction for an age in which guilty secrets are obsolete and murder isn't even worth a news headline. And in the person of his haunted, hell-ridden private eye Burke, Vachss has given us a new kind of hero: a man...

  • Predator: Race War

    From the Arctic Circle to the equatorial jungles -- from the most isolated wilderness to the overpopulated city -- any place can be a hunting ground. It all depends on your choice of game. For Predator, that game is man, so he heads to the grounds wi...

  • Footsteps of the Hawk

    A Burke Novel - 8

    A pulse-quickening new crime novel featuring Burke, ex-con, private investigator, and rumored hit man who harbors a pathological hatred for those who prey on children. In Footsteps of the Hawk Burke himself is in danger of becoming a victim. Two rog...

  • The Ultimate Evil

    Famous Characters: Batman

    Weary of fighting exotic criminals, Batman has reached a crossroads. As wealthy philanthropist Bruce Wayne, traveling with a beautiful young social worker and child advocate, he begins to realize a change must occur in his life. But what? Alfred, his...

  • False Allegations

    A Burke Novel - 9

    Burke, ex-con, mercenary, and rumored hit man, makes his living by preying on New York’s most vicious predators and occasionally avenging their innocent victims. But in this mercilessly suspenseful novel, Burke finds himself working the other side ...

  • Hard Looks

  • Safe House

    A Burke Novel - 10

    In Burke, Andrew Vachss gave readers of crime fiction a hero they could believe in, an avenger whose sense of justice was forged behind bars and tempered on New York's meanest streets. In this blistering new thriller, Burke is drawn into his ugliest ...

  • Choice of Evil

    A Burke Novel - 11

    When his girlfriend, Crystal Beth is gunned down at a gay rights rally in Central Park, Burke, the underground man-for-hire and expert hunter of predators, vows vengeance. But someone beats him to the task: a shadowy killer who calls himself Homo Ere...

  • Everybody Pays

    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...

  • Dead and Gone

    A Burke Novel - 12

    Urban Outlaw Burke barely survives an attack by a professional hit squad that kills his partner. With a new face, Burke goes into hiding. And on the hunt. Dead and Gone takes him from the streets of New York City through a cross-country underground, ...



  • Pain Management

    A Burke Novel - 13

    At hand is a task Burke has done before: the recovery of a runaway, a 16-year-old girl named Rosebud. But Burke, an assassin with scruples, knows when things aren't right. Rosebud's father, Kevin, has a '60s-era contempt of "The Man" that doesn't jib...

  • Hard Looks: Adapted Stories

    Andrew Vachss' writing has been described as "red-hot and serious as a punctured lung" (Playboy), "hypnotically violent ... made up of equal part broken concrete block and razor wire" (Chicago Sun-Times), and "short and choppy, like the ticking of a ...

  • Only Child

    A Burke Novel - 14

    After years on the run, Burke is desperate to return to his native New York, the only way he can reconnect with his outlaw "family." But to survive in their part of the City, where reputation is everything, Burke must take major risks to reestablish ...

  • The Getaway Man

    Andrew Vachss, a writer widely acclaimed for breathing new life and death into the crime genre, here presents a classic noir tale, relentlessly displaying and dissecting not guilt, but innocence. Eddie starts stealing cars long before he's old enoug...

  • Down Here

    A Burke Novel - 15

    For many years, Burke has carried a torch for Wolfe, a former sex crimes prosecutor who was fired for refusing to "go along to get along." They walk different sides of the street when it comes to "justice," but they share a limitless hatred of predat...

  • Another Chance to Get It Right: A Children's Book for Adults

  • Two Trains Running

    The Southern town of Locke City, at the mountainous foot of the rust belt, has become the vice-driven fief of one Royal Beaumont, a wheelchair-bound "hillbilly" who indulges in casual incest and rules the town by force. When the New York mafia tries ...

  • Mask Market

    A Burke Novel - 16

    They meet in a no -- name diner. A shadowy man hands Burke a CD dossier of someone he wants found. Minutes later, as Burke watches from an alley, his client is gunned down by a professional hunter -- killer team. Burke slips away, unsure if he's been...

  • Terminal

    A Burke Novel - 17

    When the former shot-caller of the country's most feared white supremacist prison gang contacts Burke, he comes with references ... and the promise of a huge score. Terminally ill, the ex-con needs major cash to gamble on the long-shot possibility of...

  • Another Life

    A Burke Novel - 18

    In this blistering new novel, Burke ("Lord of the Asphalt Jungle"--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 a f...



  • Haiku

    From the author of the acclaimed Burke series: a searing new novel that follows a band of homeless outcasts on a journey to recover what each has lost. Ho was a revered sensei, but when his dismissive arrogance causes the death of a beloved student,...

  • Heart Transplant

    School bullying is universally decried, bemoaned, and condemned. Newspapers, magazines, television, and movies all reflect the ugly truth ... bullying is not only on the rise, but becoming more dangerous every day. Whether it's a teenager committing ...

  • The Weight

    Andrew Vachss returns with a mesmerizing novel about a hard-core thief who's about to embark on a job that will alter his life forever. Sugar is that rarest of commodities: an old-school professional thief, tough and loyal as a pit bull, packing 2...

  • That's How I Roll

    Around here, even dying can be hard. Horribly hard. Only death itself comes easy. By easy, I mean frequent. Death happens so often that people regard it pretty much the same as the never-ending rain. When life itself is hard, you have to be har...

  • Blackjack

    A Cross Novel - 1

    TO: UNIT 3 Chicago FROM: DIRECTOR IMPORTANCE: Critical SUBJECT: Specimen Retrieval TARGET: Shadowy hunter-killer teams, ID'ed via signature kills worldwide. Identifiable only by skull-spine removal from victims. No witnesses, no forensics...

  • Harder Looks

    The writings of Andrew Vachss are known for unflinching portrayals of the underprivileged and abused, seeking the cold justice of vengeance. Described as "crisp, stark, sharp -- and darkly humorous" (San Francisco Examiner), Vachss' tales of vigilant...

  • Protectors

    41 writers. One cause.We've rallied a platoon of crime, western, thriller, fantasy, noir, horror and transgressive authors to support PROTECT's important work: lobbying for legislation that protects children from physical, sexual, and emotion...

  • A Bomb Built in Hell

    While doing extended time for killing a fellow prisoner, Wesley meets Carmine Trentoni in a New York state prison. Carmine's life sentence hasn't cut him off from his outside sources, and he sees great potential in Wesley to carry out his revenge. We...

  • The Shaolin Cowboy Adventure Magazine: The Way of No Way!

    Best selling author Andrew Vachss teams with award-wining artist Geof Darrow to revive the spirit and format of the pulp novels of the 30s and 40s. The Shaolin Cowboy Adventure Magazine is the first new hero-pulp to be printed in decades and combines...

  • Mortal Lock: Stories

    A hit man stalks his mark at a race track. A sociopath crosses every moral boundary to become a published author. An ex-mercenary obsessively defends his “perimeter” from a dangerous interloper. A man for hire grudgingly accepts help from a teena...



  • Aftershock

    An Aftershock Novel - 1

    The idyllic facade of a small coastal tourist magnet hides its secrets well. But when the shining star pitcher of the girls' softball team guns down the most popular boy in school, the shockwaves reverberate far beyond the school's walls. ...

  • Urban Renewal

    A Cross Novel - 2

    Chicago--the reigning #1 city in homicides--has no shortage of deadly gangs. And all those gangs know well that the Cross crew occupies a cinderblock bunker called Red 71 . . . the last place you want to go, unless you're willing to risk it being the...

  • Shockwave

    An Aftershock Novel - 2

    Dell, a former mercenary, and his wife, Dolly, once a battlefield nurse, believe they have finally found peace in a deceptively idyllic town on the Oregon coast. Until early one morning, when a body washes up on the town's pristine beach. But this no...

  • Vachss: Underground

    When there is no longer any reliable source of "news," there is nothing to trust ... and "The Terror" descends. For decades, The Rulers have been at work, using prisoner/slave labor to construct Underground, believing that all those who flee there wi...

  • Signwave

    An Aftershock Novel - 3

    Once a mercenary, later an assassin, and now struggling to maintain a peaceful life, Dell is marked by marrow-deep loyalty and no-limit protective instincts for his wife, Dolly, a former battlefield nurse. When Dolly enters the fray of a neighborhood...

  • Drawing Dead

    A Cross Novel - 3

    Even the deadliest gangs in Chicagoland fear the Cross Crew and carefully avoid their cinderblock bunker headquarters: Red 71 is well known as the last place you'd want to go ... unless you’re willing to risk it being the last place you'll ever go....

  • Another Chance to Get It Right

    25th anniversary edition!Dark Horse is proud to offer a the 25th anniversary edition of Another Chance To Get It Right, the acclaimed and ground breaking collection of short stories, poetry, and allegory by Andrew Vachss, one of the most powerfu...

  • Carbon

    In The City, government is god -- in The Sector, anarchy rules.

    The Membrane stands between those worlds. Some cross it to The Sector, seeking the forbidden. Some cross it to The City, seeking a chance to see the sky. Some try to stay. Mos...

  • Blood Line

    For those too afraid or intimidated by technology to think about where their kids go on the Internet, Andrew Vachss’ Blood Line will rock you to your core. In the world of dangerous men, a blood line is a cause passed from generation to generati...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Andrew H. Vachss has published 48 books.

Andrew H. Vachss does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Blood Line, was published in January 2022.

The first book by Andrew H. Vachss, The Rancher's Lady, was published in January 1955.

Yes. Andrew H. Vachss has 3 series.
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