The Weight

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Andrew Vachss returns with a mesmerizing novel about a hard-core thief who's about to embark on a job that will alter his life forever.

Sugars a pure professional,time tested andpacking 255 pounds of muscle. Accused of a rape he couldnt have done because he was robbing a jewelry store at the time, the DA offers him two options: give up his partners in theheist and walk, orgo back to prison alone. For Sugar, there isnt a choice; he takes the weight. When he gets out, his money is there, but so is another job. One of the heist crew has fallen off the radar, and the mastermind behind the jewelry job asks Sugar to find him and make sure their secretsare safe. Sugar suspects that theres more to this gig than what he is being told. But nothing he suspects can prepare him for what he finds.

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Vachss conveys his protagonist's reality in and out of prison in a knowing manner. Along the way, he creates sympathy for a criminal whose code of honor, and whose survival, turns out to be a work in progress. The Wall Street Journal

Sugar and Rena are a canny, lethal team that bears watching in the hopes they become future players in Vachss's ever-growing arsenal of tarnished, avenging angels. Los Angeles Times

Rippling with the whip-smart dialogue we have come to expect from Vachss, this is yet another classic from the master. Irish Independent

The prose is red-hot, mean, stripped down, and sometimes, just plain serious. San Francisco Book Review

Few plumb the . . . integrity of the honorable criminal mind like Vachss. [These] brutal insights provide only the lexicon for what is really a battered and bruised romancea salvation . . . for those who shoulder lifes true weight.Winnipeg Free Press

Damn scary. Vachss fans will not be disappointed. Booklist

[Vachss writes] some of the cleanest, meanest, stripped-down-and-sparkling prose ever penned. The Austin Chronicle

Theres no way to put a [Vachss book] down once youve begun. Detroit Free Press

Vachss is red-hot and as serious as a punctured lung. Playboy

Author Bio

Andrew Vachsss many books include the Burke novels and two previous collections of short stories. His books have been translated into twenty languages, and his work has appeared in Parade, Antaeus, Esquire, Playboy, and The New York Times, among other publications. He died in 2021.