A Bomb Built in Hell
Author: Vachss, Andrew
ISBN: 9780307950857
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Year first published: 13 Nov 2012
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback / softback
Before Burke, before Cross, Andrew Vachss created Wesley: a ruthless assassin who would stop at nothing to take out his targets. A Bomb Built in Hell is Wesley's story, in print for the very first time.
Before Burke, Andrew Vachss created Wesley, the ultimate ice-man. A Bomb Built in Hell is Wesley's story.
While doing time for manslaughter, Wesley meets prison boss Carmine Trentoni, an Old School gangster who no longer believes in the blood-oath hetookyears ago. Carmine's triple life sentence hasn't cut him off from all his outside sources-he has waited with the patience of stone for someone capable of absorbing his knowledge . . . and carrying out his sworn vengeance. Wesley emerges from prison as the perfect hit man: calculating, deadly, and ice-cold. He follows Carmine's instructions:locate"the last of us," one"Mr. Petraglia,"thenassassinate a Chinatown gang boss and a Mafia chief-bothhad overstepped theirbounds. But then Wesley findshis ownmission: As he begins to see the root of all he has learned to hate, he and a youth just out of reform school, known only as The Kid, begin to take out political targets. In a final burst of understanding, Wesley decides to leave The Kid behind. But not before he writes his own suicide note . . . in dynamite.
ISBN: 9780307950857
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Year first published: 13 Nov 2012
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback / softback
Before Burke, before Cross, Andrew Vachss created Wesley: a ruthless assassin who would stop at nothing to take out his targets. A Bomb Built in Hell is Wesley's story, in print for the very first time.
Before Burke, Andrew Vachss created Wesley, the ultimate ice-man. A Bomb Built in Hell is Wesley's story.
While doing time for manslaughter, Wesley meets prison boss Carmine Trentoni, an Old School gangster who no longer believes in the blood-oath hetookyears ago. Carmine's triple life sentence hasn't cut him off from all his outside sources-he has waited with the patience of stone for someone capable of absorbing his knowledge . . . and carrying out his sworn vengeance. Wesley emerges from prison as the perfect hit man: calculating, deadly, and ice-cold. He follows Carmine's instructions:locate"the last of us," one"Mr. Petraglia,"thenassassinate a Chinatown gang boss and a Mafia chief-bothhad overstepped theirbounds. But then Wesley findshis ownmission: As he begins to see the root of all he has learned to hate, he and a youth just out of reform school, known only as The Kid, begin to take out political targets. In a final burst of understanding, Wesley decides to leave The Kid behind. But not before he writes his own suicide note . . . in dynamite.
