Philip Carlo, Author . Leisure $6.99 (370p) ISBN 978-0-8439-5576-7
After a promising start, this thriller crumbles under a clichéd and overburdened plot. The murder of a pedophile priest at a Catholic church in New York's notorious Hell's Kitchen sends NYPD Capt. Tony Flynn on an international hunt...
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Philip Carlo, Author . St. Martin's $24.95 (410p) ISBN 978-0-312-34928-8
This stomach-turning account of the multiple atrocities committed over 43 years by Richard "The Ice Man" Kuklinski—as sadistic a killer as most readers would ever want to encounter in print—seems like more of an as-told-to than...
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Philip Carlo, Author . Morrow $25.95 (346p) ISBN 978-0-06-142984-2
One of the most dangerous, intriguing Mafia chieftains ever, Anthony “Gaspipe” Casso served as an apprentice thief and killer before rising to boss of the infamous Lucchese crime family, according to Carlo, a childhood neighbor of the...
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Philip Carlo, Author . Morrow $25.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-06-174465-5
A veteran chronicler of the mafiosi, Carlo (The Ice Man
) turns his attention to Tommy “Karate” Pitera, a brutal capo in the Bonanno crime family who allegedly killed 60 people. Carlo traces the rise of Pitera, born in 1954 into a modest
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Philip Carlo, Author Dutton Books $16.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-525-24484-4
Except for Nero Wolfe, private eyes who own New York townhouses strike a false note almost instantly, and when P.I.narrator Frank DeNardo tells us he has espresso, toast and papaya for breakfast, readers' suspicions should be roused. Ex-cop DeNardo...
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Philip Carlo, read by Kent Bateman. Blackstone Audio, unabridged, nine CDs, 10 hrs., $76 ISBN 978-1-4417-7856-7
Carlo, who died last November, was the author of several bestselling biographies of such murderers and criminals as L.A.'s "Night Stalker," Richard Ramirez; Mafia Boss Anthony "Gaspipe" Casso; and contract killer Richard Kuklinski, aka "The Ice Man."
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Philip Carlo, Author, Dick Hill, Read by , read by Dick Hill. Tantor Media $34.99 (0p) ISBN 978-1-4001-1313-2
Carlo once again delves into the world of the Mafia to bring to light a disturbing portrait of one of the most ruthless killers in criminal history and the series of events that eventually lead to his arrest. Tommy “Karate” Pitera rose...
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Philip Carlo, Author, Michael Prichard, Read by Tantor Media $39.99 (0p) ISBN 978-1-4001-0262-4
Prichard strives to navigate this marathon parade of torture and murder in an authoritative, almost aloof manner. But the cliched, repetitive and overwrought prose frequently undermines him. Carlo's apparent sympathy toward the Ice Man further...
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Philip Carlo, Author, Phillip Carlo, Author Kensington Publishing Corporation $22.95 (16p) ISBN 978-1-57566-030-1
Richard Ramirez, a Mexican American from El Paso, committed perhaps 14 murders in the Los Angeles area during 1984 and 1985 and wounded several people. While robbery was one of his motives, his main objective, according to Carlo (Stolen Flowers),...
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