Everybody Pays Stories

by VACHSS, ANDREW

• ISBN13: 9780375707438
• ISBN10: 0375707433
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-09-07
• Publisher: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

Summary

"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 comesEverybody 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 "Andrew Vachss has become a cult favorite, and for good reason." --Cosmopolitan

Author Biography

Andrew Vachss, an attorney in private practice specializing in juvenile justice and child abuse, is the country’s best recognized and most widely sought after spokesperson on crimes against children. He is also a bestselling novelist and short story writer, whose works include <b>Flood</b> (1985), the novel which first introduced Vachss’ series character Burke, <b>Strega</b> (1987), <b>Choice of Evil</b> (1999), and <b>Dead and Gone</b> (2000). His short stories have appeared in <i>Esquire</i>, <i>Playboy</i>, and <i>The Observer</i>, and he is a contributor to <i>ABA Journal</i>, <i>Journal of Psychohistory</i>, <i>New England Law Review</i>, <i>The New York Times</i>, and <i>Parade</i>.<br><br>Vachss has worked as a federal investigator

Table of Contents

Proving It	3	(10)
Reaching Back	13	(10)
Last Date	23	(5)
Tag	28	(3)
Dress-Up Day	31	(5)
Homeless	36	(4)
Mission	40	(7)
Going Home	47	(11)
The Real Thing	58	(7)
Slow Motion	65	(4)
True Colors	69	(14)
FROM THE UNDERGROUND SERIES:
Curtains	83	(5)
The Writing on the Wall	88	(5)
Safe Sex	93	(4)
Charmed Life	97	(7)
Gamblers	104	(9)
Just the Ticket	113	(6)
Summer Girl	119	(6)
Big Sister	125	(5)
Time Share	130	(5)
Goin' Down Slow	135	(3)
Word Play	138	(6)
Stepping Stone	144	(5)
Fireman	149	(7)
Dope Fiend	156	(4)
Escort Service	160	(10)
Stuntman	170	(5)
Piecework	175	(3)
The Real World	178	(8)
Perp Walk	186	(5)
Good for the Soul	191	(5)
Hit Man	196	(7)
Searcher	203	(6)
FROM THE CROSS SERIES:
The Concrete Puppy	209	(12)
Harvest Time	221	(17)
Pigeon Drop	238	(9)
Two-Way Radio	247	(6)
NOVELLA:
Everybody Pays	253