abstract:Strega (Italian for "witch" or "sorceress") is a hardboiled detective novel written by American author and attorney Andrew Vachss, first published in 1987. The story features the pursuit and destruction by the protagonist Burke, an ex-con private investigator, of a pedophile ring involved in trading child pornography via telephone modems.
A retellingofanoldItaliantale about what happens when Strega Nona leaves herapprenticealone with her magic pastapot, and he is determinedto show the townspeople how it works.