By Richard Paul Russo
First Published: 1995
“A chilling scenario of the bleak urban landscape that is 21st-century San Francisco, and the return of Lt. Frank Carlucci.”
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, Detective Frank Carlucci, is trying to trace the connection between a series of seemingly unrelated murders. The San Francisco Police Department is stonewalling what are seemingly unrelated murder investigations, and Carlucci is determined to find out why. His unauthorized uncovers an even deeper pit of corruption in the form of a black market run by top political officials.