"The best detective fiction being written . . . Add a stinging social commentary . . . a Celinesque journey into darkness, and we have an Andrew Vachss, one of our most important writers.

"Vachss writes a hypnotically violent prose made up of equal parts of broken concrete blocks and razor wire."

"Vachss waves a powerful light across a city landscape that few writers go near and none portray so convincingly."

A pulse-quickening new crime novel featuring Burke, ex-con, private investigator, and rumored hit man who harbors a pathological hatred for those who prey on children.

In Footstep of the Hawk Burke himself is in danger of becoming a victim. Two rogue cops are stalking him. The coolly seductive Belinda Roberts wants him to free a man charged with a grisly string of rape-murders. The brutal and half-crazy Detective Jorge Morales may be trying to frame Burke for the same crimes. What ensures is a novel of high-wire suspense and nightmarish authenticity, informed by an insider's knowledge of the city where everything—from flesh to other people's cellular phone numbers—is up for sale.