Books by Bob Leuci and Complete Book Reviews
Robert Leuci, Author, Bob Leuci, Author St. Martin's Press $24.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-312-14739-6
As a former NYPD detective, Leuci (Fence Jumpers; The Prince of the City) has an insider's feel for police behavior. Here, he presents a soulful, intimate story of relationships between partners as they struggle to track down Latin American...
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Robert Leuci, Author, Bob Leuci, Author William Morrow & Company $24 (382p) ISBN 978-0-380-97625-6
Former New York City police detective Leuci unleashes another torrid cop thriller that captures the gritty tension of police work and the criminal mindset without aggrandizing either. The title of Leuci's fourth novel refers to Blaze Longo, who...
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Robert Leuci, Author, Bob Leuci, Author St. Martin's Press $22.95 (338p) ISBN 978-0-312-13073-2
Characters authentic enough to be carved out of New York City sidewalks skitter along a thin line that divides loyalties in this outstanding black-humored mob-and-cop yarn. Detectives Dante O'Donnell and Saul ``Jimmy'' Burns grew up in Queens,...
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Bob Leuci, Author Freundlich Books $0 (260p) ISBN 978-0-88191-029-2
Niki Zorakoff is the Prince of Pushkin Square, a Moscow black marketer who engages in crime simply because it is one of the only ways to make a good living in the Russian capital. The KGB are on to him, though, so he defects to Brighton Beach,...
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Bob Leuci, Author Dutton Books $17.95 (254p) ISBN 978-0-453-00660-6
Leuci, the former New York cop whose exploits were documented in The Prince of the City , follows up his first two novels, Doyle's Disciples and Odessa Beach , with this tense story about steely Captain ``Butterfly,'' Marjorie Butera, a 19-year...
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Bob Leuci, Author Dutton Books $19.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-525-93383-0
This raw-nerved chronicle from ex-New York City detective Leuci ( Odessa Beach ; Captain Butterfly ) bares the ugly realities of an urban cop's daily life in the '90s. For aging Washington, D.C., homicide detective Scott Ancelet, the discovery of a...
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Bob Leuci, Author Signet Book $4.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-451-17332-4
This raw-nerved chronicle from ex-New York City detective Leuci bares the ugly realities of an urban cop's daily life in the '90s. (Feb.)
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