Bad Guys - Hardcover

Bruno, Anthony

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Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0399133402 ISBN 13: 9780399133404

Publisher: Putnam Adult, 1988

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Detective Mike Tozzi kills a mob criminal, only to learn that an F.B.I. traitor is leaking information to the Mafia, and joins forces with former partner Bert Gibbons to trap a gruesome killer and elude the F.B.I

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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.

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"Everybody's a bad guy unless he's paid not to be," says a villain prior to getting his grisly, just desserts, and by the end of this crackling thriller readers may agree. FBI early-retiree (age 55) Gibbons is called back to service to find his ex-partner Tozzi who's gone renegade, murdering a corrupt Congressman, a crooked lawyer and a middle-management mobster. The special agent in charge of the Manhattan FBI office is determined to stop Tozzi before the SAC's own record is marred. Gibbons finds Tozzi quickly but immediately teams up with him to dig out a treacherous FBI agent who's been a Mafia butcher and informer. Tozzi becomes sexually involved with Joanne Varga, Mafia princess and separated wife of a capo supposedly stashed away in a witness-protection program. But Varga is still running the mob, aided by the duplicitous, lethal Joanne. Gibbons and Tozzi eventually uncover a big-time insurance-arson scam and the Jekyll-and-Hyde Mafia/FBI killer. This slick, fast-moving narrative offers interesting inside looks at the FBI and the Mafia ("a multiservice conglomerate for extralegal activities") and some delicious characters ("Bobo raised one hand and laid the other on a video box. . . . 'I swear to God, Tox' "). Bruno's first novel isn't merely promising, it's a money debut. And he is working on a sequel.
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