The Cross Series

Andrew Vachss’ writing has been described as “red-hot and serious as a punctured lung” (Playboy), “hypnotically violent … made up of equal parts broken concrete block and razor wire” (Chicago Sun-Times), and “short and choppy, like the ticking of a time bomb” (Seattle Post-Intelligencer).

From the Arctic Circle to the equatorial jungles—from the most isolated wilderness to the overpopulated city—any place can be a hunting ground. It all depends on your choice of game. For the Predator, the game is man, so he heads to the grounds with the biggest trophies—the Paloverde State Penitentiary. They say that when you kill a killer, all his kills belong to you, and Predator’s looking to rack up the big numbers. Crime/suspense novelist Andrew Vachss has earned a reputation for writing tough stories with his hard-hitting Burke series of novels. Now he takes his familiar setting of criminals, bigots, and opportunists and drops a Predator into the mix. The result is a Molotov cocktail called Predator: Race War.