num_pages: 307
description: Burke is back, but still lurking in the shadows, unable to return home. He is prowling the unfamiliar streets of Portland, Oregon, in search of a runaway teen. By all accounts, Rosebud Carlin is a happy, well-adjusted girl. She doesn't fit the profile of the runaway kids Burke knows so well�and once was. But there's something about her father�Burke knows the street script, but the actors are all strangers. Cut off from his family and his network of criminal contacts, Burke is forced into a dangerous alliance with a renegade group dedicated to providing relief to those in intractable pain by any means necessary. A bargain is struck, and the fuse is lit. Heart-stopping and hard-hitting, Pain Management is the latest bout in Andrew Vachss's thrilling reign as undisputed champ of brass knuckles noir.
language: English
title: Pain Management
titlecomplete: Pain Management (Burke, #13)
genres: Crime, Hard Boiled, Thriller, Noir, Fiction, Detective, Mystery
ratings_count: 1054
series: Burke
publisher: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard