Choice of Evil

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  ANDREW VACHSS

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  Hard Candy

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  Shella

  Down in the Zero

  Born Bad

  Footsteps of the Hawk

  False Allegations

  Safe House

  Choice of Evil

  Everybody Pays

  Dead and Gone

  Pain Management

  Choice of Evil

  Copyright © 1999 by Andrew H. Vachss

  All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York. Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, in 1999, and in trade paperback by Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, in 1998.

  Vachss, Andrew H.

  Choice of evil / Andrew Vachss

  p. cm. — (Vintage crime/Black Lizard)

  1. Private Investigators—United States—Fiction. I, Title. II, Series

  PS3572.A33 C48 1999

  813’.54—dc21 99-61596

  CIP

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  eISBN: 978-0-375-71913-4

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