Everybody Pays: Stories (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780375707438)

A hit man defies the confines of a life sentence to avenge his sister's batterer. An immaculately dressed man hires a street gang to extract his daughter from a Central American prison, for reasons as mysterious as they are deadly. A two-bit graffiti artist with a taste for Nazi-ganda finds himself face-to-face with three punks out to make a mark of their own--literally--with a tattoo needle.

From neo-noir master Andrew Vachss comes Everybody Pays, 38 white-knuckle rides into a netherworld of pederasts and prostitutes, stick-up kids and fall guys--where private codes of crime and punishment pulsate beneath a surface system of law and order, and our moral compass spins frighteningly out of control. Here is the street-grit prose that has earned Vachss comparisons to Chandler, Cain, and Hammett--and the ingenious plot twists that transform the double-cross into an expression of retribution, the dark deed into a thing of beauty. Electrifying and enigmatic, Everybody Pays is a sojourn into the nature of evil itself--a trip made all the more frightening by its proximity to our front doorstep.

Author: Andrew Vachss
ISBN-10: 0375707433
ISBN-13: 9780375707438
Publisher: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Language: English
Published: 09/07/1999
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.08h x 5.28w x 0.92d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 09/13/1999 pg. 64
Kirkus Reviews 09/01/1999 pg. 1351
Booklist 09/15/1999 pg. 239
New York Times 12/19/1999 pg. 22