Mask Market by Andrew Vachss
Audiobook performed by David Joe Wirth

Brilliance Audio, August 2006 (audiobook) Unabridged on 7 Compact Discs / 8 hours Unabridged on 1 MP3-CD / 8 hours Abridged on 4 Compact Discs / 4 hours

The first-ever Burke audiobook! Brilliance Audio will release both an abridged and an unabridged audiobook adaptation of Mask Market, both of which will be performed by the incredible David Joe Wirth, who has been Andrew's favorite actor ever since his masterful stage performance of "Placebo." The Mask Market audiobooks will be released in August, at the same time as the hardcover novel. Click here to listen to an excerpt. [MP3 / 2.25M]

Publishers Weekly
Wirth's vocal interpretation of Burke, Vachss's famously driven defender of oppressed children and women, is an insightful mixture—tough, unruffled, pensive, dangerous and, considering the character's past hard-boiled appearances, surprisingly tender at times. The novel marks a sort of rebirth for the self-appointed sleuth, who is wearing a new face, thanks to an assassin's bullet and a skilled surgeon, and an outlook that is at least a shade less grim than in the past. This time, he's hunting for a woman he saved from a life of prostitution 20 years ago. She knows why his latest client was murdered and by whom. But she doesn't want to be found. Burke's detecting process is relatively straightforward, depending, as usual, on his "family" of colorful streetwise characters, each of whom is given his or her due via Wirth's dexterous delivery. Vachss also allows his protagonist a little more time than usual for self-reflection, as well as a prolonged romantic relationship that could, for once, end happily, and again Wirth rises to the challenge, softening Burke's hard edges during those sequences without turning him into a sentimental sap. Simultaneous release with the Pantheon hardcover (Reviews, June 5). (Sept.) Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

David Joe Wirth
David Joe Wirth has performed at numerous theatres in New York City, Chicago, London, and Paris working with such notable persons as David Mamet, Robert Falls, Roger Donaldson, and Stuart Ross. David can be heard performing the abridged audio version of Two Trains Running by Andrew Vachss, reprising his stage performances of "Placebo" on the audiobook Proving It, a collection of Andrew Vachss' short stories performed by Burt Reynolds. He is proud to serve on the Advisory Board of PROTECT, The National Organization to Protect Children.

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