num_pages: 259
description:    Andrew Vachss has reinvented detective fiction for an age in which guilty secrets are obsolete and murder isn't even worth a news headline. And in the person of his haunted, hell-ridden private eye Burke, Vachss has given us a new kind of hero: a man inured to every evil except the kind that preys on children.    Now Burke is back, investigating an epidemic of apparent suicides among teenagers of a wealthy Connecticut suburb.  There he discovers a sinister connection between the anguish of the young and the activities of an elite sadomasochistic underground, for whom pan and its accompanying rituals are a source of pleasure—and power
language: English
title: Down in the Zero
titlecomplete: Down in the Zero (Burke, #7)
genres: Fiction, Dark, Mystery, Thriller, Noir, Detective, Mystery Thriller, Novels, Crime, Suspense
ratings_count: 1551
series: Burke
publisher: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard