num_pages: 273
description: What—or who—could turn a gifted little boy into a murderous thing that calls itself "Satan's Child"? In search of an answer, a man named Burke travels from a festering welfare hotel to a neat frame house where a voodoo priestess presides over a congregation of assassins.  For this vigilante and unlicensed private eye has made it his business to defend the small victims whom the law has failed—even a child who has been made into a killer.Gripping and chillingly knowledgeable about the mechanisms of evil, Sacrifice is a thriller of savage authority from one of the best crime writers of our generation.
language: English
title: Sacrifice
titlecomplete: Sacrifice (Burke, #6)
genres: Mystery, Fiction, Thriller, Suspense, Crime, Mystery Thriller, Detective, Noir, Horror, Novels
ratings_count: 1520
places: New York (State)
series: Burke
publisher: Knopf