The Getaway Man (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard) by Andrew Vachss

The Getaway Man (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard) by Andrew Vachss

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Book Description
Eddie starts stealing cars long before he's old enough to get a license, driven by a force so compelling that he never questions, just obeys. After a series of false starts, interrupted by stays in juvenile institutions and a state prison term, Eddie's skills and loyalty attract the attention of J.C., a near-legendary hijacker. When he gets out, Eddie becomes the driver for J.C.'s ultra-professional crew. J.C., the master planner, is finally ready to pull off that one huge job every con dreams of ... the Retirement Score. But some roads have twists even a professional getaway man couldn't foresee ...

Andrew Vachss, a writer widely acclaimed for breathing new life and death into the crime genre, here presents a classic noir tale, relentlessly displaying and dissecting not guilt, but innocence.

Reader Reviews
Vachss Returns with a Good One!, October 1, 2003 Reviewer: Ann M Eadie from Jacksonville, Florida United States His best since Shella. The Burke books were getting to be repetitive and Vachss a paraody of himself. This is good old time crime novel fun, although Vachhs does not in some child abuse and vigalante vengeance to keep up appearnces, covers some "same ol'" ground here and there, and the ending you could see coming half-way through the book (it's almost like an extended version of some of his patent "twist" short stories). Still, Vachss is back. I was afraid he'd lost his touch there for a while...