Carlucci's Heart

In the burned-out streets of 21st century San Francisco, Lt. Frank Carlucci is drawn into an investigation surrounding the disappearance of his daughter's friend - a dying man who was carried off mysteriously. It's one kidnapping nobody seems to want to talk about. But as Carlucci digs deeper, the corruption and decay he finds is nothing compared to a final horror that could have devastating implications: a secret known only as Cancer Cell."Multiply everything sad, sordid, and hopelessly romantic about the City by a factor of ten, and you've got Richard Paul Russo's San Frlncisco of the mid-21st century. Serial murders, cyborgs, foxy ladies, wise street kids, and a tough ex-cop with a good eart and bad karma - Russo is mining a classic American vein."-Ursula K. Le Guin"Carlucci lives up to the .heroic code of honor as well as any of the trench-coated knights walking the mean streets of cities, past, present, or future."-Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine"Russo's people and their obsessions are delightfully real."