Destroying Angel, Richard Paul Russo
Destroying Angel, Richard Paul Russo
List: $16.95 | Sale: $11.87
Club: $8.47

Destroying Angel

Author: Richard Paul Russo

Narrator: Kristoffer Tabori

Unabridged: 9 hr 2 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/30/2013

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction


Synopsis

This electrifying cybershock thriller by a Philip K. Dick Awardwinning author takes listeners on a terrifying ride through the gritty, neon-lit streets of a future San Francisco. Beyond the future shock of Blade Runner, a new breed of killer is born In mid-twenty-first-century San Francisco, a group of corpses is found chained together on the bottom of the bay. Retired police officer Louis Tanner must find the killer among a city full of serial murderers, cyborgs, and street-wise kids. This first book in the Carlucci series introduces famed police lieutenant Frank Carlucci.

About Richard Paul Russo

Richard Paul Russo is the author of the Philip K. Dick Award–winning novels Subterranean Gallery and Ship of Fools, as well as the critically acclaimed Carlucci
series, which includes Destroying Angel, Carlucci’s
Edge, and Carlucci’s Heart. He lives with his wife in Seattle.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Bandit on April 28, 2019

Mr. Russo is a mysterious author. Far from prolific at the best of times and then nothing at all, radio silence. Not sure if he’s retired from writing, but what a shame that would be, because every book of his I’ve read, I liked. A lot. Not just me, either, and he’s got the awards and nominations to......more

Goodreads review by Mpho3 on February 06, 2011

Ho hum. There's absolutely nothing special about this book, which bears some of the sadly typical flaws of much of the genre, including wooden characters and a plot that's going nowhere. A lot of the "action" revolves around the main character going out to eat, with poorly made coffee as an ongoing......more

Goodreads review by Joey on January 22, 2014

Mr. Tanner used to be a detective with the drug squad for San Francisco PD. In this story, the world has not collapsed, yet. The very wealthy have moved off planet to satellites, leaving the pollution and crime for others to deal with. There is a lot of pollution and crime, and people just make the......more

Goodreads review by Dan on August 23, 2024

I enjoyed this novel. The concept itself - that of a crime thriller mixed with Cyberpunk - seems sp natural that I'm shocked one doesn't see more of it; especially as Cyberpunk wears it's noir inspiration on its sleave. Having said that, the main weakness in the novel is that many of the cyberpunk el......more