Terminal (Burke #17) - Andrew Vachss
Category: Mystery
Tags: Mystery, Crime
You know why we hate you? Not because you dont know what we know, but because, if you did, you wouldnt give a damn., So Im sitting here, waiting to commit extortion, and planning a lot worse. Im what youd call a criminal. Thats why Ill never be you. And Im proud of it. from Terminal, When the former shot-caller of the countrys 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 thats 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 agoand that hes holding irrefutable proof. But such a complicated extortion scheme needs the hand of a specialist crew, so
