Carlucci's Edge

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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