Terminal

By (author): "Andrew Vachss"
Publish Date: September 1st 2007
Terminal
ISBN037542508X
ISBN139780375425080
AsinTerminal
Original titleTerminal
SeriesBurke #17
â??You know why we hate you? Not because you donâ??t know what we know, but because, if you did, you wouldnâ??t give a damn.So Iâ??m sitting here, waiting to commit extortion, and planning a lot worse. Iâ??m what youâ??d call a criminal. Thatâ??s why Iâ??ll never be you. And Iâ??m proud of it.â?? --from TerminalWhen the former shot-caller of the countryâ??s most feared white supremacist prison gang contacts Burke, he comes with references ... and the promise of a huge score. Terminally ill, the ex-con needs major cash to gamble on the long-shot possibility of a cure thatâ??s available only in Switzerland. The only card he has to play is a small-time degenerate who paid for protection when they were in prison together. That professional bottom-feeder claims he personally buried the body of a thirteen-year-old girl who had been raped, tortured, and finally killed by three rich men more than thirty years ago--and that heâ??s holding irrefutable proof. But such a complicated extortion scheme needs the hand of a specialist crew, so Burke is offered a piece of the action. He and his outlaw family put together a lethal plan. If they can pull it off, Burke gets the two things he lives for: Money and Revenge. If not, â??terminalâ?? could prove to be more than just one manâ??s diagnosis. Terminal is a blistering thriller that forces Burke back in time--to keep a blood-commitment to a brother from his prison past, and to avenge the â??cold-casedâ?? rape-murder of a teenage girl.