Far into the future. The Dormire, bound for Artemis, with a cargo of cryogenically preserved rich people filling her holds. Six crew and IAN, the AI are all that is needed to run the ship. The crew are all clones, working passage to expunge their various criminal records.
A quarter century into the mission something goes horribly wrong and Maria Arena wakes up in a cloning vat surrounded by floating dead bodies (one of them hers), there's no gravity, the ship is off course, the AI offline and someone on board is a killer.
A taut, exciting, read-in-one-sitting book. Lafferty takes the sci-fi and winds it around some very human traits.
I read a lot of books as I review books for an indie bookstore in SLC, Utah. I'm also a writer. The Mary Mac trilogy is out now.
The Nikki Doyle trilogy (Rollover, Thunderball and Ms. Scarlett) can also be found at your local indie. Excalibur - the Nikki/Mary crossover was just published.
N.B My blurbs give you just a taste of the plot. Reviews are a pretty subjective matter but the books you'll find here are books I have read and loved.
Feb 27, 2017
Feb 21, 2017
Spook Street, Mick Herron
A man getting a bit absent-minded, going to the shops in his pjs should trigger the family talk about nursing homes. When the man in question is David Cartwright, legend in the secret service and grandfather to slow horse River; the worry is that the OB might shoot the postman, mistaking him for a Russian spy. There are so many secrets locked up in Cartwright's head. One secret in particular is threatening the entire secret service and wily Diana Taverner is out to bash it over the with a shovel and bury it, metaphorically speaking of course.
Jackson Lamb is called out to identify a body, one of his slow horses appears to have met an untimely end. Another is out on Spook Street, following a trail into enemy territory and deep into David Cartwright's past. And River, well he's about to have a bullet-riddled family reunion.
Jackson Lamb is called out to identify a body, one of his slow horses appears to have met an untimely end. Another is out on Spook Street, following a trail into enemy territory and deep into David Cartwright's past. And River, well he's about to have a bullet-riddled family reunion.
Feb 14, 2017
The Last Night At Tremore Beach, Mikel Santiago
Composer Peter Harper has lost his
muse, shut up on the rugged Irish coast and still licking his wounds over his
recent divorce. He’s pretty sure he’ll never write another award winning score again.
The night of one of the worst storms in living memory Peter accepts an
invitation from near neighbours Leo and Marie to have dinner with them. On the
return journey Peter is struck by a massive bolt of lightning. He wakes up in
hospital, seemingly unscathed and then the visions start. He sees a smashed
fence, a desperate woman, only the fence is fine and the woman is perfectly
safe. The visions only get worse, Peter can’t tell if he’s awake or in some
lucid dream.
Did the lightning fry his brain or amplify a latent power, or is
he simply losing his mind?
Feb 7, 2017
Winterlong, Mason Cross
Winterlong, a top secret
government group has a simple severance policy, a shallow grave with your name
on it. Former Winterlong operative, Carter Blake is a rare exception. Five
years ago he and colleague walked away from Winterlong after negotiating a pact
of mutually assured destruction with the old director. Since then both have
kept their heads down. The new director
wants his head on a pole and she’s coming after him with every asset she can
muster. Blake knows every trick in the book, problem is Winterlong wrote that
book. Armed only with his wits and some formidable fighting skills Blake goes
on the run saddled with the added complication of a rogue software designer he
was ‘retrieving’ for a client. Both sides are hurtling towards an explosive East
coast climax during one of the worst snow storms in living memory.
N.B. This is book three in the series first two are Killing Season and The Samaritan
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