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Brushback (novel)
Brushback
is a
crime novel
by
the American
writer K. C.
Constantine
set in 1990s Rocksburg, a fictional,
blue-collar
,
Rustbelt
town in
Western Pennsylvania
.
Detective Sergeant
Ruggiero "Rugs" Carlucci, the self-deprecating protégé of recently retired
Mario
Balzic, is the
protagonist
.
It tells the
story
of Carlucci, now acting
chief
of the Rocksburg,
Police Department
. When a former
professional baseball
player is
beaten
to death, Carlucci
delves
into
the past
of the
athlete
and finds that
the bases
are loaded with suspects.
It is the fourteenth book in the 17-volume Rocksburg
series
.