Anthony Bruno, Author Delacorte Press $22.5 (289p) ISBN 978-0-385-30778-9
Richard Kuklinsky, son of a brutal, alcoholic father who came home only infrequently and a mother who vented her resentment on her children, grew up to be an efficient mass murderer. By the time of his trial in 1988 at age 53 he had killed upwards...
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Anthony Bruno, Author Forge $23.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-312-86651-8
A trio of detectives chase a corrupt ice cream magnate from New Jersey to San Francisco in Bruno's third adventure featuring New Jersey Jump Squad partners Loretta Kovacs and Frank Marvelli. Kovacs and Marvelli quickly couple up as the story opens,...
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Anthony Bruno, Author Delacorte Press $19 (278p) ISBN 978-0-385-29968-8
The fourth in Bruno's Bad series ( Bad Guys ) is the best yet: fast, intricate and funny. We know from the start that the villain is Tom Augustine, WASP assistant U.S. attorney who's made a deal with mob drug dealers--he'll shield them in exchange...
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Anthony Bruno, Author Delacorte Press $18 (296p) ISBN 978-0-385-30507-5
The good news is that FBI agents Gibbons and Tozzi (last seen in Bad Business ) are back for a fifth appearance. Even better news: their main foe is again Mafia capo Sal Immordino, aided and abetted by his sister Cil, a nun. Sal, feigning madness in
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Anthony Bruno, Author Delacorte Press $21.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-385-30508-2
In their engagingly quirky sixth outing, the FBI's odd couple of Tozzi and Gibbons (Bad Guys) learn that hell hath no fury like a mobster scorned. A bad day for Gibbons gets worse when fellow agent Gary Peterson, working undercover, is shot while...
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Anthony Bruno, Author Forge $21.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-312-85990-9
New Jersey parole officer Loretta Kovacs has seen better times: ""I'm fat; I'm single; my career is in the toilet."" Once an assistant warden, she's fallen to the bottom rung in the Department of CorrectionsDthe ""Jump Squad,"" which traces and...
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Anthony Bruno, Author, Bruno, Author Forge $21.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-312-86650-1
A cranky fat woman and her hunky partner in the New Jersey Bureau of Parole's ""Jump Squad"" (those who track down cons who ""jump"" parole) are an unlikely pair nonetheless ripe for comic plotting as Bruno proved in their first well-received outing,
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Anthony Bruno, Author Putnam Publishing Group $17.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-399-13340-4
""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-
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Anthony Bruno, Author Putnam Publishing Group $19.95 (252p) ISBN 978-0-399-13432-6
By coincidence, Bruno (whose Bad Guys earned high praise) has also written a thriller featuring the Yakuza and the mob (see review above). His effort, however, is everything a suspense novel should be--a highly credible, tautly paced stunner. A...
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Anthony Bruno, Author Delacorte Press $18.95 (281p) ISBN 978-0-385-29967-1
Not-quite-by-the-book FBI agents Tozzi and Gibbons ( Bad Guys ; Bad Blood ) return here in another hilarious adventure. Trump-ish tycoon Russell Nashe is about to open Atlantic City's biggest casino. He owes $5 million to Sal Immordino, acting head...
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