Bad Business - Softcover

Bruno, Anthony

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0440211204 ISBN 13: 9780440211204

Publisher: Dell, 1992

Synopsis

After losing in the recent primary, ambitious assistant U.S. attorney Tom Augustine turns to the Mafia for the financial support he needs, and it is up to FBI agents Gibbons and Tozzi to stop him. Reprint.

About this title

About the Author:

Crime writer Anthony Bruno is the author of Seven (based on the hit film starring Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman); The Iceman?The True Story of a Cold-Blooded Killer; and The Seekers?A Bounty Hunter?s Story with Joshua Armstrong. He?s also a regular contributor to CrimeLibrary.com. A fourth-degree black belt, he studies and teaches the martial art aikido.

From Kirkus Reviews:

A lesser outing for antic FBI team Gibbons and Tozzi finds Tozzi framed for the murder of a key witness against a Mafia dope ring. The real killer, Assistant US District Attorney (and New York mayoral hopeful) Tom Augustine, gets inspired by Tozzi's offhand remark--faithfully reported in the next day's news--that somebody oughta execute, gangland-style, all 18 defendants and their lawyers in a monster drug case (a case that prosecutor Augustine, the New York connection for the Sicilian mob, has been straining to shepherd into a mistrial). And after the smoke has cleared from the safe house Gibbons and Tozzi arranged in Jersey City, Tozzi's been suspended from the Bureau, and Gibbons, whose old romantic rival Jimmy McCleery has his eye on Gibbons's wife Lorraine, gets sucked in too. It doesn't help that Tozzi's picked this month to rediscover (mostly at night, at her place) high-school princess Lesley Halloran, who's now defending Mafioso Ugo Salamandra, or that he's just been photographed chatting with Salamandra . . . but good hunches, martial arts, and dumb luck- -arch-WASP Augustine and the mob aren't exactly natural allies-- combine to kick all the proper butts. Not as deliriously overplotted as last year's Bad Luck, but still sharp enough to make you hug yourself with anticipation as Gibbons and Tozzi sink deeper into the mud you know they'll have just enough-- well, maybe not quite enough--trouble wriggling out of. -- Copyright ©1991, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

About this edition

• Publisher: Dell
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0440211204
• ISBN 13: 9780440211204
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 10