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JOSEPH P. DESARIO
THE BOOKS
After more than 25 years, the wait is over. Echo is the long-awaited first novel written by Joseph P. DeSario since Sanctuary (Doubleday) came out in 1989.
Echo
ISBN: 978-1522995043
Prescott Conservatory is an elite but notoriously peculiar music school located in the murky north woods of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. Atop the portico of the concert hall is an ancient bronze of Orpheus, the Greek god whose music charmed wild beasts. But Orpheus is empty-handed. He is without his lyre, his instrument of power.
Freshman violinist Jacy finds the lyre of Orpheus and discovers the true power of music through its mysterious liberating energy, the echo—an ancient, unrelenting sound that releases the talent and the passion she carries inside.
Sanctuary
ISBN: 978-0307801722
A false tip about a two-headed shar-pei drew tabloid reporter Matt Teller into the California desert. But instead of the dog, he found a mutilated corpse lashed to a cot. It was the scoop of a lifetime, and Teller thought he had finally found a way off the pet page-until the body vanished.
Soon Teller found himself involved with an underground railroad rescuing Guatemalan peasants, a boozing ex-baseball great named Buchanon and an ancient Mayan curse that threatened to end his less-than-distinguished career as a junk journalist.
There was no escape for Teller no...SANCTUARY.
Limbo
ISBN: 978-0307948984
A vicious, insatiable psychopathic rapist is pursued through the avenues and alleyways of East L.A. by a determined female cop in Joseph P. DeSario’s suspenseful first novel.
They call him El Castigo del Barrio, and Detective Brenda Collins goes undercover in fishnets and halter tops to serve as bait for the madman. Meanwhile, at the Church of St. John, former POW, Father Cedric Anselm dispenses brutal penance to his parishioners. Could there be a connection between the fanatical cleric and the madman haunting the barrio?
“Extraordinary…. A magnetic new voice in thriller fiction. Uncompromising, explicit.” --Publishers Weekly
“Powerful, gripping and highly suspenseful…. A throat-catching thriller.” --San Diego Union
Crusade
ISBN: 582-459886032524
When "60 Minutes" asked for America's expert on Mafia activities in the United States and Sicily, the U.S. government gave them Tom Tripodi. Crusade is the story of this bare-knuckled son of Italian immigrants who learned the Mafia's secrets--from the inside out. Learn how Tom Tripodi helped put dozens of mafiosi and drug dealers in jail and how his fellow law enforcement officials in Italy have been blown away.