In my world, people are always plotting. You have no idea of all the crimes people in business commit every day. Like it was nothing. Or there’s a set of special rules for them. Remember when Bush made that whole speech about ‘corporate ethics’ last year? What a fraud. You think stuff like Enron or WorldCom is an aberration? It’s only the tip. Business is a religion. Probably the only one practiced all over the world.

Lansdale (Veil's Visit 1999). Vachsss also has a small blue heart tattooed on his right hand. During her time as chief prosecutor Alice Vachss regularly brought one such trained dog Sheba to work with abused children being interviewed at the Special Victims Bureau.

Andrew Henry Vachss (born 1942) is an American crime fiction author child protection consultant and attorney exclusively representing children and youths. He is a native New Yorker. He is also a founder and national advisory board member of Protect: The National Association to Protect Children.