Books like Safe House by Andrew Vachss
In "Safe House," Andrew Vachss' hard‑core anti‑hero Burke is recruited when his old prison ally Hercules, now working for a clandestine safe‑house run by the protectors of stalking victims, botches a job and a stalker is murdered. To keep his partner alive, Burke infiltrates the organization and negotiates with its owner, Crystal Beth—a woman whose own obsessive compulsions mirror those of the stalkers. A ruthless extortionist threatens to expose the network unless he gets a captive woman. Burke discovers that the stalked victim is part of a neo‑Nazi cell planning a pipe‑bomb attack on Oklahoma City, and that the extortionist may be tied to government forces. Facing danger on every level, Burke must defend his chosen family with lethal resolve.
First publish date: 1998
Genre: Mystery & Detective/Private Investigator
Authors: Andrew Vachss
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