{"product_id":"2940169758061","title":"Hard Candy","description":"In this mercilessly compelling thriller, Burke - the private eye, sting artist, and occasional hit man who metes out a cruelly ingenious vengeance on those who victimize children - is up against a soft-spoken messiah who may be rescuing runaways or recruiting them for his own hideous purposes. But in doing so Burke becomes a target for an entire Mafia family, a whore with a heart of cyanide, and a contract killer as implacable as a heat-seeking missile. Written with Vachss' signature narrative overdrive - and with his unnerving familiarity with the sub-basement of American crime - Hard Candy is vintage Burke.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Burke fills a void. . . . With his soiled white hat, this Lone Ranger. . . asks difficult questions while shining light into the darkest recesses.\" - Chicago Tribune\u003cbr\u003e\"There's no way to put a [Vachss book] down once you've begun.  . . . The plot hooks are engaging and the one-liners pierce like bullets.\" - Detroit Free Press","brand":"Brilliance Audio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47100491923696,"sku":"2940169758061","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940169758061_p0.jpg?v=1763693538","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940169758061","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}