Books
October, 2000
CRIME--COOL AND HOTAs crime novelists, Elmore Leonard and Andrew Vachss work opposite sides of the street. Leonard is cool and darkly hilarious; Vachss is red-hot and as serious as a punctured lung. The latter's new Dead and Gone (Knopf) has barely begun when Burke, Vachss' antihero, is set up and shot down. What follows is a feverish quest by all of Vachss' regulars to find and destroy the man behind the hit that cost Burke an eye and killed Pansy, his beloved mastiff. On the other hand, Leonar...
