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Mortal Lock

    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.
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    Proving It

      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).
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      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.
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