Originally Posted by
tattooedmonk
MANTIS ~ My friend passed this book on to me. It is a murder mystery thriller in which the killer uses Preying Mantis Kung Fu on his victims . I have not read it yet. Have any of you??
More to come........
More about it here
Philadelphia is plagued by a series of psychosexual killings that will repulse and engross readers of this slightly over-the-edge thriller about a martial artist gone mad. Scruffy homicide Lt. Bill Fogarty gets nowhere on the case until smooth Joey Tanaka, a young half-American assistant medical examiner (and All-Japan Championship karate finalist), identifies wounds on an art student/stripper victim as typical of Praying Mantis Kung Fu--a karate style based on the insect's attack moves. La Plante's unbalanced half-Vietnamese villain seeks perfection by mimicking the mantis's deadly mating ritual: he sexually attacks his victims, male and female, before savagely doing them in.
LOL...I know I could only identify cck tcpm wounds
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