Andrew Vachss

Andrew Vachss was an American crime fiction author best known for the Burke series of thrillers, including Flood, the first Burke novel, and Strega, the fourth. Those books draw on detective fiction and noir. Vachss also worked as an attorney who represented children and youths exclusively, served as a child protection consultant, and helped found PROTECT: The National Association to Protect Children. Born in 1942, he died in 2021.