Mortal lock
Subtitle: stories
By: Andrew Vachss
Publisher: Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc.
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 380
ISBN-13: 9780307950833
Description: A collection of noir-style tales: A hit man stalks his mark at a race track. A sociopath crosses every moral boundary to become a published author. An ex-mercenary obsessively defends his perimeter against a dangerous interloper. Andrew Vachss collects twenty tight, powerful stories, all from the past decade. Together, they form "Mortal Lock," a searing portrait of the criminal underworld, with both its depravity and humanity on display.
Notes: "Vintage Crime/Black Lizard."
Table of contents: title: Ghostwriter --; title: Sure thing --; title: Bloodlines --; title: Passage to paradise --; title: Veil's visit  -- with Joe R. Lansdale; title: Dead reliable --; title: Choice of weapons --; title: They're all alike --; title: Half-breed --; title: Pig --; title: A piece of the city --; title: Seeding the ground --; title: As the crow flies --; title: Blood test --; title: Profile --; title: Last rights --; title: Postwar boom --; title: Corazon --; title: Blood orchid --; title: Underground: a screenplay.