Andrew Vachss Books In Order

Publication Order of Burke Books

Publication Order of Hap & Leonard Collections

Publication Order of Cross Books

Publication Order of Aftershock Books

Publication Order of Standalone Novels

Publication Order of Short Story Collections

Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas

Publication Order of Graphic Novels

Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books

Publication Order of L.A. Noire: The Collected Stories Books

Publication Order of Anthologies

Born in America on October 19, 1942, Andrew Henry Vachss is an author of the crime fiction genre. He is an attorney and consultant of child protection and represents youths and children. The political organization PROTECT was founded by him and he serves as a national advisory board member in this organization. He is a native citizen of New York city. Vachss had many notable roles in the protection of child before becoming a lawyer. He was a social services caseworker of New York City and served in sexually transmitted disease as a federal investigator. Just before the fall of Biafra, he entered the war zone and worked in this country. The Nigerian government banned the Red Cross airlifts and blocked the seaports. Hence, his work was to find a way, or route to supply the medical supplies and foods across the border. However, there was an ultimate failure in all the attempts that lead to rampant starvation. At that time he suffered from malnutrition and malaria and treated it after he returned. Under Saul Alinsky in the year 1970, he studied community organizing. In Chicago for the urban migrants, a self-help center was run by him and he worked as a labor organizer. In Massachusetts, for the ex-convicts, a re-entry program was managed by Andrew Vachss and finally a maximum-security prison was directed by him to the people like juvenile offenders.

Speaking about him as an attorney, only adolescents and children is represented by him. In New York state along with his private practices, he also serves as a law guardian. The work of the law guardian is to represent child in every child abuse case. He wears an eyepatch on the right because the muscles of his right eye are damaged. This happened at the age of 7 when struck by a chair by an older boy. Alice, his wife was a prosecutor of sex crimes. Later in the Special Victims Bureau, she became the chief. He also loves dogs very much and defends dogs through animal abuse. Related to dogs, he says that you get what you raise, just like humans. Along with James Colbert, who is a crime writer, Vachss helps abused children by training the dogs to make them as a therapy dog. Children who are traumatized because of abuses done on them, these dogs give them a calming effect. He says that dangerous breeds of dogs like Pit bulls, Rottweilers and Doberman pinschers are the best dogs for therapy. They make a dangerous appearance and protect children from any human threats and thereby make the children get over with the trauma. His wife used to bring Sheba, a trained dog regularly at the interview done on the abused children during her time as a chief.

In the life of Andrew Vachss, a numerous novels are written by him like the two collections of short series, the Burke series and many others. There has been translation of his books in more than twenty languages. The appearance of his work has appeared in the New York Times, Playboy, Esquire, Parade and many other forums. Till date Vachss has written 33 novels and 3 short stories. Some of them are the Burke series, Aftershock series and the Cross series. In addition to this he also writes graphic novels, song lyrics, plays and poetry. Among all his novels he is best known for Burke Series. There are 18 books in the Burke Series with the first one in the year 1985 and the last one in 2008. The first book in the series is ‘Flood’.

In the novel ‘Flood’ of the Burke series, Flood is the name of a woman. She looks like an angel and has a very sexy body like a high-priced stripper. She has a particular set of skills of a professional executioner. She comes to Burke and tells him that he has to find a monster. The main motive behind this is that she wants to kill the man by herself with her bare hands. In this thrilling novel, Flood who is a lethally gifted avenger team up with the investigator to find the murderer of a child through the New York’s catacombs, where the amount of danger in the penthouses and the basements are same and where every single alley is blind. Even if there is a risk of his life, Burke has find that man and close the mystery. The book is written in a thrilling way with tension and fear all over it. This novel was first published in the year 1985 and was published again by Vintage in the year 1998. In the series it is also known by the name Burke #1. For Best First Novel, it had a nominee for Anthony Award in the year 1986. In the same year it had the Best First PI Novel nominee for Shamus Award.

The second book in the series is Strega. It is a hardboiled detective novel published in the year 1987 and Strega is the new client of Burke. She gives him a task of finding an obscene photograph and this search will turn into a great mystery revealing plot, which will show the ocean of money and flesh flowing beneath the city. The cruelty of twisted adults and anguish of children will be revealed. There is only way for Burke to visit these places and that is at the risk of his life and his sanity. There is no turning back for Burke after he goes in this mystery. The main theme of this novel is about the trading of child pornography through telephone modems. It was published long before the internet came into existence and pornography became widespread. This novel has many characters that are repeated in other books in the series like Immaculata, who is the girlfriend of Max and mother of flower in the future period. Another one is Terry, who is a child prostitute and the other one is Wolfe. It was first published on February 12, in the year 1987 and later in the year 1996 by Vintage. In the year 1989, Strega won the Falcon Award.