{"id":43972,"date":"2026-04-03T09:53:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T15:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/?p=43972"},"modified":"2026-04-03T09:53:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T15:53:07","slug":"russos-revenge-by-edward-izzi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/?p=43972","title":{"rendered":"Russo&#8217;s Revenge by Edward Izzi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Dark, gritty, and razor-sharp.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Betrayed by the badge he wore, a decorated Chicago officer triggers a relentless cycle of corruption, revenge, and reckoning in Izzi&#8217;s fast-paced thriller. Tommy Russo was once one of Chicago\u2019s finest\u2014until dirty cops took him down. Four years later, he\u2019s free\u2026 but the city that betrayed him hasn\u2019t changed. When the officers who ruined his life are executed one by one, Russo becomes the prime suspect. He has every reason to want revenge. But as bodies pile up and the FBI tightens the net, Russo must uncover the truth before he\u2019s buried by it. Because someone else is delivering justice\u2014and they\u2019re not finished yet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Izzi handles multiple storylines with confidence, weaving Russo\u2019s fall and return into a wider portrait of systemic corruption. By moving between cops, cartel players, and investigators, the novel builds a convincing sense of scale. De La Cruz stands out in particular, not as a stock villain, but as a cold, calculating operator whose business polish makes him all the more unsettling. At its core, the novel wrestles with a question it never neatly answers: where does justice end and revenge begin when the system itself is broken? Russo\u2019s journey gains strength from that uncertainty. The violence, though often stark, isn\u2019t gratuitous. If the novel occasionally leans into familiar genre territory\u2014the framed cop, the corrupt department, the shadowy kingpin\u2014it compensates with emotional sincerity and narrative momentum. Russo\u2019s personal losses ground the story, giving weight to its larger conflicts, while the escalating tension sustains engagement through to its central mystery: who is truly orchestrating the reckoning?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A hard-edged urban thriller that places character and consequence at the forefront.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Russos-Revenge-Edward-Izzi\/dp\/B0GVFCYCK7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Buy now<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Pub date March 29, 2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">ISBN 979-8254211204<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Print length 433 pages<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Price $16.99 (USD) Paperback, $9.99 Kindle edition<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dark, gritty, and razor-sharp. Betrayed by the badge he wore, a decorated Chicago officer triggers a relentless cycle of corruption, revenge, and reckoning in Izzi&#8217;s fast-paced thriller. Tommy Russo was once one of Chicago\u2019s finest\u2014until dirty cops took him down. Four years later, he\u2019s free\u2026 but the city that betrayed him hasn\u2019t changed. When the officers who ruined his life are executed one by one, Russo becomes the prime suspect. He has every reason to 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