"Swiniarski does a good job [showing]
an everyman with a good-if-no-longer-beating heart can still triumph,
even in a world filled with apathy and bloody fangs."
—Locus
—Locus
about the book
In the last days of Summer 1934 the
lower half of a female torso washes up on the shores of Euclid Beach
Park in Cleveland, Ohio. Those remains are the beginning of
Detective Stefan Ryzard's descent into Hell.
In the years that follow the discovery, headlines proclaim the efforts of Safety Director Eliot Ness' hunt for the soon-infamous "Torso Killer." And while the police are persuing a psychopath who's leaving a trail of dismembered corpses behind him, Stefan Ryzard is trapped in a hunt for somone— something— much darker. . . .
And finding the truth might cost him his soul.
Note: This novel is now published as part of the Blood & Rust omnibus.
In the years that follow the discovery, headlines proclaim the efforts of Safety Director Eliot Ness' hunt for the soon-infamous "Torso Killer." And while the police are persuing a psychopath who's leaving a trail of dismembered corpses behind him, Stefan Ryzard is trapped in a hunt for somone— something— much darker. . . .
And finding the truth might cost him his soul.
Note: This novel is now published as part of the Blood & Rust omnibus.
The Flesh, the Blood, and the
Fire
DAW Books Inc., 1998, 364pp
ISBN: 0-8867-7879-4
$5.99($6.99 Can.)
DAW Collector's Number: 1091
DAW Books Inc., 1998, 364pp
ISBN: 0-8867-7879-4
$5.99($6.99 Can.)
DAW Collector's Number: 1091