Terminal (29 page)

A
LSO BY
A
NDREW
V
ACHSS

THE BURKE SERIES

Flood

Strega

Blue Belle

Hard Candy

Blossom

Sacrifice

Down in the Zero

Footsteps of the Hawk

False Allegations

Safe House

Choice of Evil

Dead and Gone

Pain Management

Only Child

Down Here

Mask Market

OTHER NOVELS

Shella

The Getaway Man

Two Trains Running

SHORT-STORY COLLECTIONS

Born Bad

Everybody Pays

Copyright © 2007 by Andrew Vachss

All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Pantheon Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto.

Pantheon Books and colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Vachss, Andrew H.

Terminal: a Burke novel / Andrew Vachss.

p.                            cm.

1. Burke (Fictitious character)—Fiction. 2. Private investigators—New York (State)—New York—Fiction. 3. Girls—Crimes against—Fiction. 4. New York (N.Y.)—Fiction. 5. Extortion—Fiction. I. Title.

PS3572.A33T47 2007

813'.54—dc22                                                                2006102372

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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

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