Everybody Pays Stories [Paperback]

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 a contemporary master. --The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Vachss' writing is like a dark roller coaster ride of fear, love and hate.   --The Times- Picayune

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.   --CosmopolitanVachss has been a federal investigator in sexually transmitted diseases, a social caseworker, and a labor organizer, and has directed a maximum-security prison for youthful offenders.  Now a lawyer in private practice, he represents children and youth exclusively.  He is the author of numerous novels, including the burke series, two collection of short stories, and a wide variety of other materilÓo