Det Frank Carlucci Series by Richard Paul Russo
Det Frank Carlucci #1
Destroying Angel
Richard Paul Russo
Welcome to the Future... of Madness and MurderIt is a new century built on chaos. Citizens have divided into violent warring factions. Environmental self-destruction has taken its toll by the millions. And two tattooed corpses chained together have been dragged from the Bay.Some things never change.The bodies were found in pairs. Planted on the bottom of the Bay. Chained together in a death embrace. Tattooed with angel wings.It was the kind of sleazoid crime that made Tanner leave the force years ago. It was also the kind of sleazoid crime that would drag Tanner back. On the beat. Into the streets. Straight to hell.Only Tanner, an ex-cop turned smuggler, knows the Chain Killer’s labyrinth. But only the punk urchin Sookie can lead him there—to a terminus called The Tenderloin. Here the Angel of Death resides. Here the ultimate crimes of the future are born...And only here can they be stopped.Award-winner Richard Paul Russo creates a stunning future world of high-tech murder, cybernetic terror and raw human emotion-a masterwork of science fiction and suspense.URSULA K. LE GUIN PRAISES DESTROYING ANGEL:"Multiply everything sad, sordid, and hopelessly romantic about the City by a factor of ten, and you've got Richard Russo's San Francisco of the mid-21st century. Serial murders, cyborgs, foxy ladies, wise street kids, and a tough ex-cop with a good heart and bad karma-Russo is mining a classic American vein."
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Det Frank Carlucci #2
Carlucci's Edge
Richard Paul Russo
In the political network of the twenty-first century, some things never change...The future of crime is now.THE SIZZLING NEW CYBERTHRILLER BY THE PHILIP K. DICK AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR OF DESTROYING ANGELA small-time drug dealer is murdered. The mayor’s nephew is found dead. On the surface they are unrelated. But that surface has cracks, and Lieutenant Frank Carlucci is not a man to stop digging. He knows the murders are the tip of a long, corroded wire that twists deep into the San Francisco political machine. And it’s a live one.In Destroying Angel, award-winning author Richard Paul Russo created a new breed of cop novel, mixing high-tech serial murder with raw human emotion. Now, his latest masterwork of science fiction and suspense marks the explosive return of Lt. Frank Carlucci, a cop on the edge of tomorrow. A hard-wired world of crime and corruption. A world that has captured unanimous literary acclaim..."Multiply everything sad, sordid, and hopelessly romantic about the City by a factor of ten, and you've got Richard Russo's San Francisco of the mid-21st century Serial murders, cyborgs, foxy ladies, wise street kids, and a tough ex-cop with a good heart and bad karma—Russo is mining a classic American vein."—Ursula K. Le Guin"Unites the sensational subject matter of serial-killer fiction, as best exemplified by Thomas Harris... with the kind of overpopulated near-future backdrop and cyberpunkish technological sensibility most intelligently on display in the work of...William Gibson."—Michael Bishop"A truly gripping story"—Science Fiction Chronicle“RUSSO’S VOICE IS MUCH NEEDED IN OUR DAY AND AGE.”—New Pathways“LEAN, MEAN, AND COMPELLING.”—Deseret News (UT)“[RUSSO] PAINTS [THE CITY BY THE BAY] like some kind of futuristic Inferno, graduated downward in levels ever more baroquely deadly... moves at a brisk, steady pace guaranteed to keep the pages turning.”—Minneapolis Star Tribune“RUSSO’S PEOPLE AND THEIR OBSESSIONS ARE DELIGHTFULLY REAL.”—AnalogAce Books by Richard Paul Russo
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