Mantis

Name: Mantis
Brand: Blackstone Audiobooks
Availability: InStock
Author: Richard La Plante
ISBN: 9781504653916

Author: Richard La Plante

Series: Fogarty-Tanaka Series #1

Narrator: Robin Sachs

Unabridged: 10 hr 41 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Escargot

Published: 07/01/2015

Categories: Fiction, Suspense & Thriller, Mystery & Detective, Hard-boiled, Psychological

Synopsis

Three young women have been brutally assaulted and murdered in the city of Philadelphia. Lieutenant William Fogarty, a time-toughened cop hardened by personal tragedy, is shocked by the brutality of the crimes. His only lead comes from medical examiner Josef Tanaka. Half Japanese and half American, Tanaka, a skilled practitioner of the martial arts, claims to recognize the method used in the attacks: a karate strike known as nukite, or spear hand. Fogarty has nowhere else to turn.An unlikely combination, Fogarty and Tanaka, forced together by circumstance and neither completely trusting the other, conduct a desperate hunt, trawling the city streets of Philadelphia and into the dangerous underbelly of the killing arts. Pursuing the Mantis, a creature who uses the flesh of his victims in a sadistic, macabre ritual of self-purification, Fogarty and Tanaka endanger the lives of those closest to them as they inch perilously close to the precipice of their own worst fears and weaknesses.

About Richard La Plante

Richard La Plante has been writing professionally since 1987 and has published eight crime fiction novels and three memoirs. With degrees in psychology and literature, he combines his longtime study of Japanese martial arts with his interest in metaphysics to create spine-tingling thrillers. He also loves Harley-Davidsons and will be reissuing his two motorcycle memoirs. He lives in the mountains of Ojai, California, and has recently founded an independent publishing company, Escargot Books, where he blogs regularly.

About Robin Sachs

Robin Sachs was born and raised in London, England, and studied acting at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA). After RADA, Robin spent time performing everything from Shakespeare to Tom Stoppard and touring various parts of the known world. His British TV appearances include Brideshead Revisited, Upstairs Downstairs, and Rumpole of the Bailey. He is probably best known in America for his role on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, as well as being in several films.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Alex is The Romance Fox

Synopsis:In recent weeks, three young women have been brutally assaulted and murdered in the city of Philadelphia. Lt. William Fogarty, a time-toughened cop, hardened by personal tragedy, is shocked by the brutality of the crimes. His only lead comes from medical examiner Josef Tanaka. Half Japanese......more

Goodreads review by Dollie

There is a serial killer loose in Philadelphia. So far, he has killed half a dozen women and a man. He kills them by rupturing an artery in their throat. His name is Willard Ng (pronounced No One) and he thinks that he is a mantis. He even kills like a mantis. It’s up to a rough cop, Bill Fogerty, a......more

Goodreads review by Wayne

Plodding ... full of excessive detail......more

Goodreads review by John

When friends and I interviewed Donnie Yen in 1996, the future Ip Man star said he was offered the Mantis screenplay by producer Samuel Hadida but he passed on it. He should have taken it.......more

Goodreads review by Michele

I spotted this book mentioned in Linda La Plante's bio as having been written by her husband. I read this many, many years ago and elements of the story have stayed with me for over twenty years. I must get hold of it again to see if it still lives up to what I remember about it. As I remember it had......more

Quotes

“Creepy, crawly, and, from time to time, a bit scary.” Kirkus Reviews