Vachss' A Bomb Built in Hell

[terry bowman]

I just finished reading _A_Bomb_Built_In_Hell_, Andrew Vachss' first novel, written in !973 but unpublished until 1999. I've long been a Burke devotee, but I stumbled upon a link to ABBIH on the wikipedia hardboiled page. It is Wesley's story, and parts of it have been cannibalized (Vachss' word) in some of his other early novels. It is available as a free PDF download at:

http://www.vachss.com/av_novels/bomb.html

It's a great read and took me about 8 hours to get through.

Terry Bowman
http://www.crime614.blogspot.com

[E.A. Cook]

Andrew Vachss- The mack-daddy master of all crime writers alive today