Cover Art; This book is Andrew Vachss's first novel. Spine ends & corners of book cover have extremely light bumping & rubbing. Light tan paper covered boards have a blue cloth spine with gilt lettering. Text pages are clean & bright. Endpapers are a solid cream color. Spine ends & corners of dust jacket have a bit of very light bumping & rubbing. Top front corner of dust jacket has one small nicked / rubbed spot and there is another very tiny nick to top front spine joint edge. Overall, a nice bright copy. "Here is a shattering new novel, introducing a brand-new exciting talent. The milieu is the urban underside where s*x at its gaudiest and most perverse is bought and sold - a kind of American analogue to Gorky's Lower Depths. Freelance investigator Burke (his true specialty is survival) like his creator knows this world intimately."

Mystery Andrew Vachss John Sposato Thriller Crime Fiction Private Investigators Hard-boiled detectives Hard-Boiled and Noir