Three Bullet Opera - Paperback

by Gary Phillips (Author)

Former Army investigator and ex-L.A. Sheriffʼs deputy Jackie Alvarez is asked by her old friend, the ʻhoodʼs patron saint Sister Rosa Vu, to look into a killing in Koreatown involving one of Vuʼs wayward flock. Soon Jackie is battling ninjas armed with electric samurai swords and dodging drones seeking to blow her up from the sky. She uncovers a secret lair under a seemingly normal apartment building in Inglewood, and more, the mastermind behind all this-a most devious international criminal believed long dead...Dr. Mabuse! Mabuse who can astral project his essence into others, hypnotize by remote control, now seeks to control Los Angeles then the state by his old methods and a new one-taking over machines with his mind. Only Jackie Alvarez, armed with her wits and indomitable will, can stop his nefarious scheme before the aria of the Three Bullet Opera is sung for her.