Analyse af Andrew Vachss' novelle 'The Hostage'

The Hostage “The Hostage” Is a short story written by Andrew Vachss, in 1989. It presents Walker a hostage negotiator, who observes a young man named Mark Weston, holding his mother at gunpoint, threatening to kill her, who is in her wheelchair, unable to move. The detective allows Walker to take the next steps. Walker recalls returning from the Vietnam war, starting as a cop. Moving to many different departments because he kills all his targets, then his gun was taken from him. A guy named Mark stands on a building in Brooklyn, with a gun in his hand pointed