num_pages: 341
description: Burke's newest client is a woman named Flood, who has the face of an angel, the body of a high-priced stripper, and the skills of a professional executioner.  She wants Burke to find a monster for her—so she can kill him with her bare hands.In this cauterizing thriller, Andrew Vachss's renegade investigator teams up with a lethally gifted avenger to follow a child's murderer through the catacombs of New York, where every alley is blind and the penthouses are as dangerous as the basements.  Fearfully knowing, crackling with narrative tension, and written in prose as forceful as a hollow-point slug, Flood is Burke at his deadliest—and Vachss at the peak of his form.
language: English
title: Flood
titlecomplete: Flood (Burke, #1)
genres: Thriller, Detective, Novels, Crime, Hard Boiled, Noir, Suspense, Mystery, Mystery Thriller, Fiction
ratings_count: 3807
series: Burke
awards: awardedAt: 504950400000
name: Anthony Award
category: Best First Novel, awardedAt: 504950400000
name: Shamus Award
category: Best First PI Novel, awardedAt: 599644800000
name: Deutscher Krimi Preis
category: 3. Platz International
publisher: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard