Lost Glory

Glen Tucker #1

by Peter Menadue

In the near future, the United States is a dictatorship where the police use memory auditing to catch criminals. The procedure seems foolproof. No crook can avoid detection. However, Homicide detective, Glen Tucker, suspects that someone is erasing incriminating memories. His investigation leads him to the highest levels of government and deep inside his own mind.

116 pages, ebook

First published May 10, 2023

About the author

Peter Menadue was a non-award winning print journalist before studying law at Sydney University and Oxford University. For the last twenty years he has practiced as a barrister in Sydney, Australia. He also writes courtroom novels under the pseudonym "Mark Dryden"

Reviews

[Balthazar Lawson · Rating 5 out of 5]

Glen Tucker is a homicide detective working in Washington DC in a future where the job is made easy by the ability to read people's memories. If you are connected with the victim, your memory will be audited to reveal your innocence or guilt. All very simple and easy. But with every technology that is made with good intentions, there is a dark side and here the ability to delete a memory also exists. Glen begins to think that the person who he strongly believes is responsible for a murder, but has no memory of it, may have had his memory of the event deleted. Things get even more complicated when his partner is murdered.

Although this is a novella, it makes you think, about the abuse of power and how things that are made with good intentions, can have very bad side effects. People should think more about the side effects and not just the good things can do.