Everybody Pays

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.

“Vachss is a contemporary master.”
—The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

“Vachss’ writing is like a dark roller coaster ride of fear, love and hate.”
—The Times-Picayune

“The best detective fiction being written … [Vachss is] one of our most important writers.”
—Martha Grimes

Proving It
Reaching Back
Last Date
Tag
Dress-up Day

 Homeless
Mission
Going Home
The Real Thing
Slow Motion
True Colors

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