SignWave: An Aftershock Novel: 3 (Aftershock Series) - Softcover

Praise for Andrew Vachss and SignWave

"Vachss seems bottomlessly knowledgeable about the depth and variety of human twistedness." --The New York Times

"Vachss's writing is like a dark rollercoaster ride of fear, love, and hate." --The Times-Picayune

"An extended meditation on what Dell aptly calls 'the zen of violence'. . . . Fans of the series will lose sleep." --Kirkus Reviews

"Entertaining. . . . Lots of assassin lessons and killing lore make turning the pages a learning experience in the dark arts as much as a riveting read." --Publishers Weekly

"[Vachss] writes a hypnotically violent prose made up of equal parts of broken concrete block and razor wire." --Chicago Sun-Times

"To read Andrews Vachss at his best is to take a ride on the dark side, where the plight of the oppressed and vulnerable . . . becomes the catalyst for revenge-fueled street justice." --Los Angeles Times

"Andrew Vachss is unique among modern writers; no one else comes close to the raw power and intellectual ambiguity that he manifests so elegantly, so coldly." --The Clarion-Ledger

"There is no other living American author with prose as razor-clean as Andrew Vachss, and there is no other writer willing to go so far into such dark extremes, either. When Vachss turns the juice on, the bad guys sizzle." --The Austin Chronicle

"Vachss is red-hot and as serious as a punctured lung." --Playboy

"There's no way to put a [Vachss book] down once you've begun. . . . The one-liners pierce like bullets." --Detroit Free Press

"Vachss explores the horrific intersection of victims and victimizers, evil and avengers. The setting has moved from urban to small-town, but the eternal conflict is as it ever was." --Booklist

"Razor-edged and compulsively readable; the pages fly by." --Library Journal

"Vachss impresses again with his new dark and compelling thriller." --Largehearted Boy.com

"Many writers try to cover the same ground as Vachss. A handful are as good. None are better." --People

Once a mercenary, later an assassin, and now struggling to maintain a peaceful life, Dell is marked by marrow-deep loyalty and no-limit protective instincts for his wife, Dolly, a former battlefield nurse. When Dolly enters the fray of a neighborhood dispute and receives a thinly veiled threat for her trouble, Dell instantly reverts to guerrilla tactics. His target is George Byron Benton, a prominent local figure who pushes an inscrutable agenda with the deadly patience of a Gila monster—and whose public life may all be an elaborate disguise. Dell is quickly down to cold objectives: decode Benton’s end-game, calculate the tactics needed to recapture Dolly’s stolen sense of security . . . and execute.

With Andrew Vachss’s trademark razor-sharp dialogue and inimitable prose style, SignWave—the final entry in the Aftershock trilogy—is guaranteed to reverberate powerfully long after it has been read.