Destroying Angel: The Carlucci Trilogy Book One by Richard Paul Russo

41 in stock

200mm x 127mm x 15mm

Pages: 224

Truly gripping . . . a lot more realistic than most near-future SF, as well as being just plain better written than most of it. GÇö Science Fiction Chronicle

In the crumbling San Francisco of tomorrow, a former narcotics-squad cop is reluctantly drawn into the investigation of a serial killers return. Louis Tanner recognizes the ugly work of the Chain Killer, a maniac who dispatches his victims two at a time, welding the corpses together in a grotesque embrace and dumping them into a body of water. Tanners troubled conscience from a previous case compels him to reunite with his former colleague, Frank Carlucci. Together, they enter the citys notorious red-light district, chasing a vicious drug dealer who forces them even deeper into the underworld GÇö where police are powerless and the foulest criminals live in contempt of the law.
Author Richard Paul Russo twice received the Philip K. Dick Award: in 1989, for his second novel, Subterranean Gallery, and in 2001 for Ship of Fools. This hard-boiled thriller is the first volume of the critically acclaimed Carlucci Trilogy, consisting of Destroying Angel, Carluccis Edge, and Carluccis Heart. All three works offer a gripping combination of classic noir mystery and futuristic cyberpunk fiction.