Book Description
Choice of Evil - A rally in Central Park, a
protest against gaybashing. A murderous drive-by. Five people
down, two dead. One of them Crystal Beth, girlfriend of
Burke, the most haunted and darkly talented man-for-hire in
the city.
First the gay-bashers celebrate . . . then they start
dropping. Claiming responsibility is the mysterious
"Homo Erectus," whose identity is as unknown as his
mission is clear.
Burke is unsurprised when the cops pull him in for
questioning--"I was born a suspect." But he is now
also homeless and homicidal, a gun without a target, unable
to find the shooters who killed his last chance at love, and
drifting near the brink of the ultimate despair he calls the
Zero.
Most citizens see Homo Erectus as a serial killer with a
political agenda. But to some, he's become a hero. Like the
police, they desperately want to find him. But unlike the
police, they want to help him disappear before the dragnet
tightens. They hire Burke for the job. Which is when things
really get ugly. For as Burke tracks the killer, he stumbles
across the unmistakable footprints of the man who was the
city's most feared assassin before his own death--an ice-cold
murder machine whose very name still inspires terror in the
city's underground. The whisper-stream is divided in its
verdict: either Wesley never really died . . . or he's found
a way to come back.
In Choice of Evil, Burke strays closer to the edge
than he ever has before, and closer to the most twisted
workings of the human heart and mind. It is also Andrew
Vachss's most haunting and frightening novel to date.
