SignWave: An Aftershock Novel [Paperback]

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.Praise for Andrew Vachss andSignWave

“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 darlĂB