Lorenzo Carcaterra Books In Order

Tank Rizzo Books In Publication Order

  1. Tin Badges (2016)
  2. Payback (2020)

Apaches Books In Publication Order

  1. Apaches (1997)
  2. Chasers (2007)

The Wolf Books In Publication Order

  1. The Vulture’s Game (2014)
  2. The Wolf (2014)

Standalone Novels In Publication Order

  1. Gangster (2001)
  2. Street Boys (2002)
  3. Paradise City (2004)
  4. Midnight Angels (2010)
  5. Three Dreamers (2021)

Non-Ficton Books In Publication Order

  1. A Safe Place (1993)
  2. Sleepers (1995)

Anthologies In Publication Order

  1. Dangerous Women (2005)

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Lorenzo Carcaterra Books Overview

Apaches

Remember these names: Boomer. Dead Eye. Pins. Geronimo. Reverend Jim. Mrs. Columbo. They were great cops. The best cops. But they are cops no more. Now they are Apaches a renegade unit working on their own. With this novel, the author of the stunning 1 bestseller Sleepers returns to the mean streets he knows so well. And in doing so, he has written his most explosive, electrifying, and startling book yet. It is the early 1980s. Crack cocaine has made its devastating appearance. Violence is escalating and so is an unnerving lack of morality. Things are happening that have never happened before. One of those things is the brutal kidnapping of an innocent 12 year old girl. But the kidnapper has made a deadly mistake. He has brought Boomer Frontierie back to life, back to the streets. And back into action. A New York City detective forced to retire after being wounded in a drug bust, Boomer thirsts to return to the life he loved the life of a cop. When an old friend turns to him for help, Boomer has the excuse he needs. And when the simple kidnapping turns into something more, something much more evil, even more horrifying, Boomer realizes that he can once again find a way to serve justice. There are others like Boomer. Cops who can no longer be cops. He brings them together, bringing them back to life as well. Even as they face almost certain death. Apaches is the story of an extraordinary band of cops. Some might call them criminals. Some might call them heroes. But theirs is a world where good is always shadowed by bad, where right is almost indecipherable from wrong, and where the living can, within mere moments, cross over to the world of the dead. Lorenzo Carcaterra has written the most exciting novel of the year. Like Sleepers, it is a book that will never be forgotten. From the Hardcover edition.

Chasers

From the bestselling author of Sleepers and former writer/producer of Law & Order comes another high octane New York City crime drama pulsing with energy. In Lorenzo Carcaterra’s Chasers, the street smart and highly specialized cadre of renegade NYPD cops last depicted in his acclaimed novel Apaches returns in a new tale of action and suspense.

It s 1985, and the city that never sleeps is about to wish it had stayed in bed. The heinous machine gun murder of innocent bystanders in a Manhattan restaurant shocks all five boroughs. The brutal slaying propels the surviving members of the Apaches controversial, take em down, outside the law ex cops into investigating a Colombian drug cartel responsible for distributing millions of kilos of cocaine on American shores.

Along for the harrowing ride with Boomer, Dead Eye, and Reverend Jim are three new Apaches: Ash, a wounded female Hispanic cop who specializes in arson investigations; Quincy, an HIV positive recruit who s a forensics expert; and a retired police dog named Buttercup, a Neapolitan bullmastiff who is no ordinary animal but a gold shield detective, highly decorated for his skills at sniffing out illegal drugs. Now this dedicated team will become Chasers, working multiple cases that will converge into one explosive, all out street war.

They will face a gallery of formidable enemies: Quinones, a mysterious and deadly assassin; the Boiler Man, a killer as ruthless as he is cunning; Angel, a former priest turned cartel boss, determined to end his career as the richest drug baron in the world; and the G Men, a band of dealers and doers determined to maintain their iron grip on the cocaine trade no matter how much blood is spilled.

Fueled by Lorenzo Carcaterra s adrenaline rush prose and peopled with uncommon heroes and merciless crime lords tearing through city streets, Chasers proves to be this acclaimed author s most intense novel to date.

Gangster

Five CDs, 6 hrs. performance by Joe MantegnaThe powerful prologue sets the tone. Gabe, the narrator of the novel, is visiting an old man his uncle, Angelo at the hospital. The uncle is dying a lonely and solitary death, abandoned by his family, deserted by everyone but Gabe. As Gabe keeps his sad vigil, a woman, Mary, enters the hospital room. He has never seen or heard of her before but she knows an awful lot about him and even more about Angelo. She tells Gabe that there’s much he should know. And as she begins to recount the real story of Angelo’s past and as Gabe, in his own first person voice, tells his own story as it intersects with Angelo’s Gabe learns not only his family history, he confronts important truths about who he is and what he’s going to become. Part One is the story of the making of a powerful New York mobster Angelo Vestieri. In a shocking opening in Sicily, Angelo’s father must make a decision about his eldest son. The family then escapes to America a scene of a fire on their boat is harrowing and indelible. As Angelo adjusts to his new life, he, along with his best friend Pudge, discovers what must be done to survive: skirt the law as a child, break the law as a teenager, then, as he grows up, become the leader of the law breakers. His story unfolds against the backdrop of New York from the early part of the century to the early 1930’s: the gang wars, the criminal mentality, the relationships between Gangsters and their women, the loyalty between men, the moral codes that are embraced or discarded. Part One ends with a tragedy that occurs in Angelo’s life, one that drives him further along the path of a hardened Gangster with one goal only: to win. Part Two picks up Angelo and Pudge’s story 30 years later. They are at the top and they must face one last gang war. This is where Gabe enters the story as Angelo’s surrogate son. Angelo and Pudge teach the boy everything there is to know about being a Gangster. And, as the action unfurls and there is a LOT of action Gabe must ultimately decide whether or not to follow in the footsteps of the men he loves or join the safer, and less exciting, world of the non Gangster. The book comes full circle, dealing with Angelo’s last days and one final truth that Gabe discovers about himself and his past.

Street Boys

Naples, Italy, during four fateful days in the fall of 1943. The only people left in the shattered, bombed out city are the lost, abandoned children whose only goal is to survive another day. None could imagine that they would become fearless fighters and the unlikeliest heroes of World War II. They are the warriors immortalized in Street Boys, Lorenzo Carcaterra’s exhilarating new novel, a book that exceeds even his bestselling Sleepers as a riveting reading experience.

It s late September. The war in Europe is almost won. Italy is leaderless, Mussolini already arrested by anti Fascists. The German army has evacuated the city of Naples. Adults, even entire families, have been marched off to work camps or simply sent off to their deaths. Now, the German army is moving toward Naples to finish the job. Their chilling instructions are: If the city can t belong to Hitler, it will belong to no one.

No one but children. Children who have been orphaned or hidden by parents in a last, defiant gesture against the Na*zis. Children, some as young as ten years old, armed with just a handful of guns, unexploded bombs, and their own ingenuity. Children who are determined to take on the advancing enemy and save the city or die trying.

There is Vincenzo Soldari, a sixteen year old history buff who is determined to make history by leading others with courage and self confidence; Carlo Maldini, a middle aged drunkard desperate to redeem himself by adding his experience to the raw exuberance of the young fighters; Nunzia Maldini, his nineteen year old daughter, who helps her father regain his self respect and loses her heart to an American G.I.; Corporal Steve Connors, a soldier sent out on reconnaissance, then cut off from his comrades with no choice but to aid the Street Boys; Colonel Rudolph Van Klaus, the proud Na*zi commander shamed by his own sad*istic mission; and, of course, the dozens of young boys who use their few skills and great heart to try to save their city, their country, and themselves.

In its compassionate portrait of the rootless young, and its pitiless portrayal of the violence that is at once their world and their way out, Street Boys continues and deepens Lorenzo Carcaterra s trademark themes. In its awesome scope and pure page turning excitement, it stands as a stirring tribute to the underdog in us all and as a singular addition to the novels about World War II.

Paradise City

The most exciting achievement to date from the acclaimed author of Sleepers and Gangster, Paradise City is a riveting thriller of two cops and two countries, a stunning crime novel about the roots of revenge, honor, and evil. As a fifteen year old, Giancarlo Lo Manto learned about injustice the hard way. His father was gunned down by the Camorra, the murderous clan run by Don Nicola Rossi. When his mother moved him from New York back to his family’s ancestral home in Naples, Gian found himself face to face with the source of the mob s strength, the spring that spawned its deadly killers. Today, twenty three years later, he is a dogged detective on the Naples police force, homicide division, the most dangerous beat in Europe. He is the nemesis of all who export evil, the man who stops it before it spreads overseas. His efforts have not gone unnoticed. The strength of Naples reinforces the muscle of New York and now the two worlds are about to collide. In the highest towers of the most expensive streets of New York City, Pete Rossi, the son of Don Nicola, has decided to bring Gian back to America permanently. When Gian learns that his teenage niece, Paula, has gone missing in Manhattan, he cancels a much needed vacation to Capri, to paradise, joking that one island is just as good as the other. Gian s homecoming will be anything but smooth. Someone must always watch his back, and Detective Jennifer Fabini gets the job. A gifted officer with her own personal demons, Jennifer thinks she ll be dealing with a peasant from the old country. The handsome, reserved, unrelenting Gian is a revelation: an irritant and a temptation especially for a woman who has sworn off cops as lovers. Together the two must solve a disappearance that appears to be a kidnapping…
but turns out to be a deadly trap. As they dash from the sun struck villages of Italy to the darkest drug dens of New York, their journey links old world honor and modern day danger, and ends in a dizzying explosion of the present and the past. Paradise City is Lorenzo Carcaterra s richest entertainment, a book that is at once a sensational crime novel and a provocative exploration of his trademark themes: violence and innocence, love and revenge. From the Hardcover edition.

Midnight Angels

In the secret passageways of one of the world’s most majestic cities, an American woman must risk everything to keep the long lost work of a Renaissance master from falling into the hands of thieves. In Midnight Angels, acclaimed author Lorenzo Carcaterra returns with a gripping new novel of suspense, revealing a fascinating world where art and crime rendezvous in the shadows, where rumors swirl of undiscovered masterpieces lost to the ages and hidden throughout Europe, and where some will do anything to possess these priceless treasures. Kate Westcott has come to the beautiful city of Florence to study the masterly Michelangelo, whose work has inspired centuries of admiration, adoration, even lust. Of course she already knows more about him than most art historians, thanks to her guardian and mentor, Professor Richard Dylan Edwards. A preeminent Michelangelo scholar and a member of the mysterious Vittoria Society Edwards has devoted his life to chasing down lost and stolen works of art and returning them to their rightful owners. Exploring the cobbled streets of the Renaissance city with fellow art student Marco Scudarti, Kate feels the pull of destiny. And when the two uncover a secret chamber in a corridor sealed since the time of the Medicis, they make a stunning discovery: Michelangelo s Midnight Angels three small, exquisite sculptures long rumored to exist but never before seen. It is the find of a lifetime and the beginning of their nightmare. Pursued by operatives of the most heinous criminals, under suspicion from the elite Rome Art Squad, and navigating the underground network of the Vittoria Society, Kate must use all her cunning to elude capture. From the halls of the Uffizi to the Piazza Santa Croce, across the Ponte Vecchio and under the shadow of the Duomo, Kate and Marco race to preserve and protect not only Michelangelo s work but also their lives. Midnight Angels is a thrilling, page turning novel in which Lorenzo Carcaterra evokes an Italian setting so intimate and sensual that it seems to live and breathe along with his characters.

A Safe Place

‘Dramatic, graphic and wrenching…
The reader is left to wonder at the devastation of Carcaterra’s youth, at his survival to adulthood, and at the grace that allowed him to craft this piercing memoir.’
THE WASHINGTON POST
Lorenza Carcaterra grew up in Hell’s Kitchen, New York in the 1950s and ’60s in a confusing world of love and fear of his paradoxically violent and affectionate father. Then Lorenzo learned that his father had murdered his first wife. And he wondered how he could love his father again. Did he possess the same murderous fury; would he someday suddenly lash out at those he loved? As his father’s physical abuse escalated, Lorenzo sought frantically for A Safe Place
a place where he could find hope and reconciliation and peace, where his father’s terrible shadow no longer lingered. Now, decades later, Lorenzo has finally come to terms with the awful truth about his father. A Safe Place is the brilliant result.

Sleepers

This is the true story of four young boys. Four lifelong friends. Intelligent, fun loving, wise beyond their years, they are inseparable. Their potential is unlimited, but they are content to live within the closed world of New York City’s Hell’s Kitchen. And to play as many pranks as they can on the denizens of the street. They never get caught. And they know they never will. Until one disastrous summer afternoon. On that day, what begins as a harmless scheme goes horrible wrong. And the four find themselves facing a year’s imprisonment in the Wilkinson Home for Boys. The oldest of them is fifteen, the youngest twelve. What happens to them over the course of that year brutal beatings, unimaginable humiliation will change their lives forever. Years later, one has become a lawyer. One a reporter. And two have grown up to be murderers, professional hit men. For all of them, the pain and fear of Wilkinson still rages within. Only one thing can erase it. Revenge. To exact it, they will twist the legal system. Commandeer the courtroom for their agenda. Use the wiles they observed on the streets, the violence they learned at Wilkinson. If they get caught this time, they only have one thing left to lose: their lives. Sleepers is the extraordinary true story of four men who take the law into their own hands. Brilliantly written, it is a searing portrait of a system gone awry and of the people some innocent, some not so innocent who must suffer the consequences. At the heart of Sleepers is a sensational murder trial that ultimately gives devastating, yet exhilarating, proof of street justice and truly defines the meaning of loyalty and love between friends. Told with great humor and compassion, even at its most harrowing, Sleepers is an unforgettable reading experience. It will leave you breathless.

Dangerous Women

Prepare to meet the most seductively female and the most shockingly fatal of femmes fatales, brought to you by seventeen of today’s finest authors of mystery and suspense fiction. Award winning editor Otto Penzler presents a collection of short and sizzling masterpieces of kisses and kiss offs, gams and gats, published for the first time anywhere. In ‘Third Party,’ Jay McInerney takes you on a wild ride through the Paris night with a party girl built for speed and sin ‘Rendezvous,’ Nelson DeMille’s first short story in twenty five years, plunges you into a Vietnam jungle where the bloodiest scourge of this man’s army is no man at all back in the U.S.A. of ‘Louly and Pretty Boy,’ Elmore Leonard introduces a Depression era teenage gun moll who loves Pretty Boy Floyd more than she likes knocking off filling stations and Michael Connelly’s colorful and ironic ‘Cielo Azul’ shows how a nameless woman left dead on a Los Angeles hillside can be the most lethal prey of all. These and a bevy of other very bad girls cast their criminal spells through the powerful voices of Lorenzo Carcaterra, Joyce Carol Oates, John Connolly, Thomas H. Cook, Jeffery Deaver, J. A. Jance, Andrew Klavan, Laura Lippman, Ed McBain, Walter Mosley, Anne Perry, Ian Rankin, and S. J. Rozan in stories as irresistible as the antihero*ines that blaze through their pages.’I’m not usually given to superlatives, but Dangerous Women may be the best, most varied, and colorful mystery anthology of all time.’ Janet Evanovich’Otto Penzler knows more about crime fiction than most people know about anything, and proves it once more in this brilliant anthology.’ Robert B. Parker’Wow, what memorable dames! What terrific short stories! Dangerous Women is a winning collection.’ Susan Isaacs

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