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            Burke is one of many most cold-blooded yet unusually ethical characters in the real history of crime fiction, an outlaw who makes his living by preying on the most bad of Ny City’s bottom-feeders, those who prosper on the enduring of children.            In Tim Vachss’s tautly engrossing book Burke is provided a handbag saturated in filthy cash to obtain the notorious Cat Truck that's reducing a life-threatening swath among the teen-age hookers within the ‘hood.  He also gets assist in the shape of a stripper called Belle, whose progresses the driveway are outclassed only by what she may do in a getaway vehicle.  But not even.  Burke is organized for the evil that's behind the Cat Truck or for the pure nuisance of its protector, a cadaverous karate expert who likes killing so much that he's called herself after death.