From the Publisher
"Vachss seems bottomlessly knowledgeable about the depth and variety of human twistedness." —The New York Times
"We are taken not simply into the mean streets but into a subterranean nightmare world. A place as compelling and morally challenging as any to be found in the best crime fiction today." —The Washington Post Book World
"[Vachss is] able to wring edginess from his portrayal of a society hovering beneath the radar." —The Village Voice