Burke is Back

Andrew Vachss's latest Burke novel, Terminal, was released yesterday. It's an engrossing read for any Burke fan. The typical cold as dry-ice tone is there. The great capers and over-the-top strategies are there. And Burke's diatribes against the ills of society are there.

The story focuses on a white supremacist whose only recourse against his terminal disease is an expensive treatment in a foreign country. To raise the much needed cash, he enlists Burke into an extortion scheme involving some wealthy members of society and a decades old murder.

But Vachss does something slightly different in this book. He ends on a cliffhanger the likes of which I don't recall happening in his previous work. There's a major threat to Burke's family (his chosen family, not biological family) and you'll have to tune in next time to find out what happens.