Carlucci's Edge: The Carlucci Trilogy Book Two

By Richard Paul Russo

Book Overview

"Russo has an excellent eye for the urban landscape and] the crime writer's well-tuned ear for vernacular ... from street punks right up to the high-level officials." -- Asimov's Science Fiction

In the San Francisco of the future, technology advances while society declines. Against a vividly realized urban backdrop, one of the police force's last honest cops is trying to trace the connection between a series of seemingly unrelated murders. Detective Frank Carlucci manages to thwart his crooked department's efforts to block his investigations -- only to discover an even deeper pit of corruption in the form of a black market run by political officials.
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 second volume of the critically acclaimed Carlucci Trilogy, consisting of Destroying Angel, Carlucci's Edge, and Carlucci's Heart. All three works offer a gripping combination of classic noir mystery and futuristic cyberpunk fiction.

"One of the best blends of SF and mystery yet written." -- Science Fiction Chronicle

"Russo's latest SF crime novel is mean streets, callous megacorps, venal politicians, and ordinary lowlifes in a jam ... Russo's characters succeed in stirring our empathy, but their strangeness is what holds our attention." -- Analog

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0486834247
• ISBN13: 9780486834245
• Release Date: September 2019
• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.0" x 7.9"