From the author of the acclaimed Burke private-eye series comes an ambitious and chilling novel that shows us not only what evil is, but where it comes from. For Shella is nothing less than a tour of evil's spawning ground, conducted by one of its natural predators.
He is called "Ghost" because he is so nondescript as to be invisible and because he slays with such reflexive ease that he might be one of the dead. Once he traveled with a woman who was called "Shella" -- because those who had treated her as a horrendously ill-used child had tried to make her come out of her shell. Now Shella has vanished in a wilderness of strip clubs and peep shows, and Ghost is looking for her, guided by a killer's instinct and the recognition that can only exist between two people who have been damaged past the point of no return. The result is Andrew Vachss's most compelling work to date, the thriller reimagined as a bleak romance of the damned.
He is called "Ghost" because he is so nondescript as to be invisible and because he slays with such reflexive ease that he might be one of the dead. Once he traveled with a woman who was called "Shella" -- because those who had treated her as a horrendously ill-used child had tried to make her come out of her shell. Now Shella has vanished in a wilderness of strip clubs and peep shows, and Ghost is looking for her, guided by a killer's instinct and the recognition that can only exist between two people who have been damaged past the point of no return. The result is Andrew Vachss's most compelling work to date, the thriller reimagined as a bleak romance of the damned.
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Hardback Editions
October 1994 : Hardback
| Title: Shella Author(s): Andrew Vachss ISBN: 0-517-13082-3 / 978-0-517-13082-7 (USA edition) Publisher: Random House Value Publishing Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
October 1993 : Hardback
| Title: Shella Author(s): Andrew H. Vachss ISBN: 0-333-60183-1 / 978-0-333-60183-9 (UK edition) Publisher: Macmillan Availability: Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
March 1993 : Hardback
| Title: Shella Author(s): Andrew Vachss ISBN: 0-679-42416-4 / 978-0-679-42416-1 (USA edition) Publisher: Knopf Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
Paperback Editions
August 2000 : Paperback
| Title: Shella (Canongate Crime Classics) Author(s): Andrew Vachss ISBN: 1-84195-014-9 / 9781841950143 (UK edition) Publisher: Canongate Books Availability: Amazon UK More details... |
October 1994 : Paperback
| Title: Shella Author(s): Andrew H. Vachss ISBN: 0-330-33413-1 / 978-0-330-33413-6 (UK edition) Publisher: Pan Books Availability: Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
August 1994 : Paperback
| Title: Shella Author(s): Andrew Vachss ISBN: 0-679-75681-7 / 978-0-679-75681-1 (USA edition) Publisher: Vintage Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
1993 : Paperback
| Title: Shella Author(s): Andrew Vachss Publisher: Knopf Availability: Amazon More details... |
Other Editions
September 2001 : Unbound
| Title: Shella Author(s): Andrew H. Vachss, Marty Asher ISBN: 0-375-71907-5 / 978-0-375-71907-3 (USA edition) Publisher: Vintage Books USA Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
September 2001 : Kindle edition
| Title: Shella Author(s): Andrew Vachss Publisher: Vintage Availability: Amazon More details... |
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