The Fiction of Andrew Vachss

“I made a commitment when I started writing the series that it wasn’t going to be this stupid, plastic private eye crap where somebody stays 35 or 40 years. … This is a family of choice, which means that their highest commitment is to protect their children, and the only way to do that is to make their children go on to another life. They cannot bring those children into the family business. That’s where that decision has to be made, and that’s where the series ends.”