Bad Moon [Hardcover]

Anthony Bruno (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 1, 1992

Bruno drives deep into Elmore Leonard territory with this deliriously comic mess. It's like a giant box of chocolates without a single dud.-Kirkus ReviewsMobster or mental case? That's what FBI agents Mike Tozzi and Cuthbert Gibbons have to figure out in Bad Moon, the fifth book in the Gibbons and Tozzi thriller series. Incarcerated in a mental institution, mob boss Sal Immordino plots his comeback with the help of his sister the nun and a serial-killer-in-training. Bodies are piling up. Gibbons and Tozzi have to throw out the rule book to keep Immordino off the throne.

--This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

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 a New Jersey asylum, schemes to take over the Mistretta family and to eliminate Tozzi, the one person who knows he's not crazy. After a bloody--and funny--mob rub-out, Sal's plan slips when the attack on Tozzi fails. Helped by a corrupt asylum guard, Sal plans to make the hit himself and make a psychopathic young killer the scapegoat, but complications ensue when the psychopath's medication runs out. Meanwhile, Gibbons fights office politics (a female psychologist-agent is brought in over him) and Tozzi broods about nearing 40 and fears continuing impotence. The climax, set at a big Mafia funeral, is hilarious, and features a corpus ex machina. This series dazzles with fast, intricate plotting, terrific characters and humor: Cil, in full ecclesiastical drag, "turned into a nun, a real nun, like the ones Sal remembered from Catholic school. Brutal." Only the FBI won't like this one.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Library Journal

Popular renegade FBI agents Tozzi and Gibbons (e.g., Bad Luck , Delacorte, 1990; Bad Business , Delacorte, 1991) struggle with mob murderers set in motion by an institutionalized racketeer.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 296 pages
• Publisher: Delacorte Press; First Edition edition (June 1, 1992)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0385305079
• ISBN-13: 978-0385305075
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.2 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,526,658 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Anthony Bruno is the author of the non-fiction books, THE ICEMAN: THE TRUE STORY OF A COLD-BLOODED KILLER and co-author of THE SEEKERS: A BOUNTY HUNTER'S STORY with Joshua Armstrong, which was nominated for an Edgar Award. IMMORTAL MONSTER is a Crimescape Kindle Single about his experiences with hitman Richard "Iceman" Kuklinski.

He is also the author of the crime novels SEVEN (based on the Brad Pitt-Morgan Freeman movie), BAD GUYS, BAD BLOOD, BAD LUCK, BAD BUSINESS, BAD MOON, BAD APPLE, DEVIL'S FOOD, DOUBLE ESPRESSO, and HOT FUDGE.

His thriller, BLEEDERS, and Catholic-school coming-of-age novel, THE TEMPTATIONS OF ST. FRANK, are Kindle originals.