Angel City Blues eBook Jeff Edwards
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Another action-packed cyberpunk detective thriller from the award-winning author of 'Dome City Blues’
Los Angeles 2065. A wealthy reporter vanishes from her high-security apartment without leaving a single strand of DNA behind. No trace of the victim’s disappearance is recorded on any of the building’s many cameras or security sensors. Her apartment’s memory cores have been destroyed beyond any hope of recovery.
To find the missing woman, Private Detective David Stalin must unravel a crime with no apparent motive, no imaginable means, and no conceivable opportunity. The truth, when he finds it, will blur the lines between pleasure and pain. Between fantasy and reality. Between life and death…
Praise for the City Blues series
“A smart, action-packed mystery thriller set in a future reminiscent of Blade Runner. Edwards combines the mind-twisting surrealism of Philip K. Dick with the hard-boiled characters of Elmore Leonard. I can’t wait for the next one!” -- JAK KOKE, Bestselling author of ‘The Edge of Chaos’ and ‘The Terminus Experiment’
“Fresh and surprising at every turn, Dome City Blues by Jeff Edwards delivers first-rate adventure, high-thrills, and a vision of the future that will keep you fascinated. With this book, my only advice is enjoy!” -- GAYLE LYNDS, New York Times bestselling author of ‘The Book of Spies’ and ‘The Assassins’
“Ex-private detective David Stalin inhabits a world you might not want to live in, but you definitely want to visit. Whether or not you’ll survive the trip is anybody’s guess... but you won’t stop flipping the pages until you’re done.” -- JEFF MARIOTTE, Author of ‘The Burning Season’ and ‘City Under the Sand’
Other Books by Jeff Edwards
Military Fiction
- Sea of Shadows
- The Seventh Angel
- Sword of Shiva
- Steel Wind
Cyberpunk Detective Sci-Fi
- Dome City Blues
Short Story
- Postcards from the Moon
Angel City Blues eBook Jeff Edwards
Hard-boiled Detective - Urban Tech NoirDavid Stalin - and what an unfortunate name is that? - is a private detective in future Los Angeles, circa 2063. This Los Angeles is definitely approaching Blade Runner/cyberpunk levels of dysfunction, with technologically-advanced, wealthy enclaves sitting near run-down, crime-ridden slums that technology has mostly left behind.
Stalin has been hired by uber-wealth Leanda Forsyth to find out what happened to her daughter. Forsyth's daughter was a novice reporter who went to her apartment one evening and simply disappeared. The police have gotten nowhere, and Forsyth has reached out to Stalin to take a fresh look at the evidence and follow it to wherever it leads.
Where the trail leads runs from slums where organ poachers hijack tourists to Japanese orbital colonies that attempt to recreate the ambience of Tokyo circa 1860. Along the way, Stalin is introduced to SCAPE technology, which permits experiences to be downloaded and replayed as a virtual reality for consumers. People being people, SCAPE technology is not limited to experiencing diving with dolphins, but is being used to support a blackmarket of porn, snuff, and crime chips to people with jaded, corrupt tastes.
Stalin follows the leads where they go, which is often through other people who are standing in the way, with threats, bullying, fists, and bullets where needed. Stalin is Dashiel Hammet's "Continental Op" updated for the late 21st century, with more backstory and artificial intelligences, including his house and the stored cyberpersonality of a former cop, to help him.
All in all, this is a satisfying detective/science fiction story. I thought the beginning was moving slowly, but about half-way in the story amped up and didn't look back. The pace of the story made me forgive the deus ex machina ending, which, actually, I found rather satisfying, for all that I know in retrospect that it is a deus ex machina ending.
Apparently, this is a sequel to a book written by author Jeff Edwards around twenty-five years ago. I assume that story has more of the Stalin backstory.
I am looking forward to more Stalin stories.
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Angel City Blues eBook Jeff Edwards Reviews
JE has written a mystery novel of the near future. He has taken a scientific achievement and turned it into a murder weapon. The two people who are investigating the murder have no ideas what they are. heading into. When they figure out what one brother has done to his other brother and sister they believe they will be eaten by the Nanobots next. This is an excellent read for the genre..... ER
I really enjoyed this gumshoe detective story set in a not so distant future. The world Edwards illustrates is far enough into the future to create a sense in wonder and intrigue but not so distant that it seems unrealistic.
The characters are well developed, funny, entertaining, and most important; human. I would recommend this book to anyone who loves a little "who-done-it" mixed with a little SciFi.
Compelling read that you can't put down. This novel is wonderful, quirky, horrifying, tearful, humorous; I could add a dozen more descriptives. It's a dsystopian sci-fi with a dash of good old fashioned detective work and naturally a touch of romance. I loved it. I hated it. I kept trying to quit reading it---but I just had to know how it would end! Fortunately we will see our PI Stalin again as I noticed there are more in the series. I'm adding Jeff Edwards to my very long list of new to me must read authors.
In a world of virtual reality gone bad, detective David Stalin takes on a case of a missing rich girl. When his client has endless funds and is willing to spend anything to find her daughter, Stalin soon find himself in deeper than he can handle...and he's quite the resourceful fellow.
Downloaded personalities, terrifying virtual reality chips, off planet nano-disassemblers, Edwards loads up with exciting cutting edge technology and a mystery that twists and turns.
Well written, this page turner more than satisfies.
I didn't know what to expect when I started this book. I'm a techy guy and was totally drawn in by the tech stuff in the novel, as well as the story. I even began to believe some of the tech stuff Edwards wrote into the plot. And I remembered so much of what was science fiction a decade ago, is common place now. Pretty good plot, lots of drama, didn't see the ending coming so it was a good experience. I recommend it if you can handle the tech stuff.
Angel City Blues grabs you from the first paragraph and catapults you into The World After Tomorrow. The setting is both familiar and different; the characters are similarly fresh remakes of classic archetypes. His 2065 Los Angeles--all of it, from the Lives of the Rich and Shameless to East LA--rings true to anyone who's been in the present day one. The main character/narrator is easy to identify with, and the narrative flows smoothly. Jeff's always been a good writer, but he's really come into his own with this series. This is a very enjoyable story, and I look forward to the next tale in this series.
Popcorn it's not haute cuisine, but it's tasty and before you know it you find you've eaten the whole bowl. Same thing for this book (and it's prequel, Dome City Blues). It's not great literature, but the plot moved along with enough interesting ideas to keep me reading and engaged to the end. Both books suffered a bit from pat endings -- things fall into place a bit too neatly for the hero -- but every bowl of popcorn has some un-popped kernels at the bottom. One element that did bother me was the female client. It sounded as if she intentionally turned herself into a nymphomaniac (using the biomedical techniques of the future world of the story). This didn't fit with her overall character as a strong, aggressive woman, and frankly was in poor taste. There were other ways to make her attracted to the detective, if that was the author's objective.
Hard-boiled Detective - Urban Tech Noir
David Stalin - and what an unfortunate name is that? - is a private detective in future Los Angeles, circa 2063. This Los Angeles is definitely approaching Blade Runner/cyberpunk levels of dysfunction, with technologically-advanced, wealthy enclaves sitting near run-down, crime-ridden slums that technology has mostly left behind.
Stalin has been hired by uber-wealth Leanda Forsyth to find out what happened to her daughter. Forsyth's daughter was a novice reporter who went to her apartment one evening and simply disappeared. The police have gotten nowhere, and Forsyth has reached out to Stalin to take a fresh look at the evidence and follow it to wherever it leads.
Where the trail leads runs from slums where organ poachers hijack tourists to Japanese orbital colonies that attempt to recreate the ambience of Tokyo circa 1860. Along the way, Stalin is introduced to SCAPE technology, which permits experiences to be downloaded and replayed as a virtual reality for consumers. People being people, SCAPE technology is not limited to experiencing diving with dolphins, but is being used to support a blackmarket of porn, snuff, and crime chips to people with jaded, corrupt tastes.
Stalin follows the leads where they go, which is often through other people who are standing in the way, with threats, bullying, fists, and bullets where needed. Stalin is Dashiel Hammet's "Continental Op" updated for the late 21st century, with more backstory and artificial intelligences, including his house and the stored cyberpersonality of a former cop, to help him.
All in all, this is a satisfying detective/science fiction story. I thought the beginning was moving slowly, but about half-way in the story amped up and didn't look back. The pace of the story made me forgive the deus ex machina ending, which, actually, I found rather satisfying, for all that I know in retrospect that it is a deus ex machina ending.
Apparently, this is a sequel to a book written by author Jeff Edwards around twenty-five years ago. I assume that story has more of the Stalin backstory.
I am looking forward to more Stalin stories.
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