Amazon.com Interview on Another Life

“My goal was not to raise consciousness, but to raise anger. Ours is a country where anything can be accomplished if enough people get angry… because, in America, we act on our collective anger. If you want proof of how that works, just take a look at how New York State finally closed the hated (and virtually unknown) ‘incest exception.'”

Read the Amazon Q&A with Andrew Vachss. (Scroll past the Editorial Reviews to read An Interview with Andrew Vachss on Another Life, the Final Book in the Burke Series.)

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