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Prosthetic Gods
A trillion dollar warbot, the ultimate in congressional pork, lies gutted in the desert. Guilty as hell, Sergeant Jackie Woolcombe runs for her life.
Nowhere left to turn, she is offered a desperate deal. Her former boss made enemies, sometimes literally, and he wasn't always scrupulous about the ingredients. They want him dead, and she is just the woman to make it happen.
An ordinary woman should not survive the nanoswarms, invisible assassin bots and inevitable betrayals facing Jackie. But then, an ordinary woman
would never have survived getting into this much trouble in the first place.
Nowhere left to turn, she is offered a desperate deal. Her former boss made enemies, sometimes literally, and he wasn't always scrupulous about the ingredients. They want him dead, and she is just the woman to make it happen.
An ordinary woman should not survive the nanoswarms, invisible assassin bots and inevitable betrayals facing Jackie. But then, an ordinary woman
would never have survived getting into this much trouble in the first place.
250 pages, Kindle Edition
First published March 30, 2013
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July 18, 2013
This is a very creative imagining of the future. In this future, people and computers are highly integrated and bots do most of the dirty work. The plot centers around an assassination committed by 2 people which then keeps them on the run for the rest of the book.
I find this book very hard to describe even though I liked it a lot. If you like sci-fi, you will enjoy this. The main characters are well developed and easy to like. It has a very distinctive "Mad Max" kind of feel to it.
The only downside is that it is often hard to tell what is real and what is virtual. I'm not sure if the author did that on purpose or not. Also, the world he's describing is so different from ours that a little more explanation of some things would be in order. That is something I almost never say about a book.
As difficult as this book may be to describe, it is a very good piece of storytelling and well written. It kept me engaged and curious.
The author gave me a copy for review through librarything giveaways. Thanks for the chance to read it!
I find this book very hard to describe even though I liked it a lot. If you like sci-fi, you will enjoy this. The main characters are well developed and easy to like. It has a very distinctive "Mad Max" kind of feel to it.
The only downside is that it is often hard to tell what is real and what is virtual. I'm not sure if the author did that on purpose or not. Also, the world he's describing is so different from ours that a little more explanation of some things would be in order. That is something I almost never say about a book.
As difficult as this book may be to describe, it is a very good piece of storytelling and well written. It kept me engaged and curious.
The author gave me a copy for review through librarything giveaways. Thanks for the chance to read it!
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