The Weight
Written by Andrew Vachss
Narrated by Buck Schirner
3.5/5
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Andrew Vachss returns with a mesmerizing novel about a hard-core thief who's about to embark on a job that will alter his life forever.
Sugar is that rarest of commodities: an old-school professional thief, tough and loyal as a pit bull, packing 255 pounds of muscle. When he's picked out of a photo array in a vicious rape case, the cops find his apartment empty. A stakeout catches Sugar when he returns...carrying a loaded pistol. The sex-crime cops get nothing from their interrogation, but a streetwise detective figures out why Sugar offers no alibi: at the time of the rape, a holiday-weekend break-in job was being pulled at a jewelry store. The DA offers Sugar two options: give up his partners in the jewelry heist and walk, or plead to the rape he didn't commit-and he'll toss in the gun charge. For Sugar, that's not two options; he takes the weight.
When Sugar finishes his time, his money is waiting for him, held by Solly, the mastermind behind the jewelry heist. But Solly tells Sugar that one of the heist crew was actually sent by another planner-and that planner has just died. In Sugar's world, all loose threads must be cut. He suspects that there's more to this job than what Solly is telling him. But nothing he suspects or imagines can prepare him for what he finds....
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Reviews for The Weight
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Another excellent crime thriller by Andrew Vachss. This one fizzles a little in the third act, and I wish he'd spent another 20-30 pages with the characters. His curt prose is electric, but I felt this story needed more telling. He introduces us to some interesting characters and we don't want to leave them.
If Haiku turned you off, this is more like the Burke novels. I'd read another book about Sugar.