A hit man defies the confines of a life sentence to avenge his sister's batterer.Â Â An immaculately dressed man hires a street gang to extract his daughter from a Central American prison, for

Everybody Pays: Stories

A hit man defies the confines of a life sentence to avenge his sister's batterer.Â Â An immaculately dressed man hires a street gang to extract his daughter from a Central American prison, for reasons as mysterious as they are deadly.Â Â A two-bit graffiti artist with a taste for Nazi-ganda finds himself face-to-face with three punks out to make a mark of their ownâ€”literallyâ€”with a tattoo needle.

From neo-noir master Andrew Vachss comes Everybody Pays, 38 white-knuckle rides into a netherworld of pederasts and prostitutes, stick-up kids and fall guysâ€”where private codes of crime and punishment pulsate beneath a surface system of law and order, and our moralÂ Â compass spins frighteningly out of control. Here is the street-grit prose that has earned Vachss comparisons to Chandler, Cain, and Hammett--and the ingenious plot twists that transform the double-cross into an expression of retribution, the dark deed into a thing of beauty. Electrifying and enigmatic, Everybody PaysÂ is a sojourn into the nature of evil itselfâ€”a trip made all the more frightening by its proximity to our front doorstep.

Everybody Pays: Stories