We open in a sleazy sex club, the perfect place for Lorelei Ogden and April Vasquez to intercept sleazy former teammate turned traitor, Paul Tidwell. He knows the location of a top-secret conference that will be attended by Terance Tamoon, Ogden’s ultimate target. He is the Gamma Trita Corporation executive behind a secretive research project called Galatea. This ethically questionable project involves transplanting human minds into indestructible android bodies in an effort to create unstoppable fighting machines. Tamoon has a lot to answer for, including his unwanted advances on a younger Vasquez, and Ogden has every intention of holding him responsible. The problem is getting to him, a task made virtually impossible by his heavy security detail and ever-evolving itinerary—even his contingency plans have contingency plans. Presiding over an evil corporate empire isn’t easy, after all.
Once Ogden has an idea of where to begin, she and her band of outlaws, including new Ventran ally Dr. Silf, set out to capture and/or kill Tamoon and destroy Project Galatea before it’s too late—if it isn’t too late already. All signs point to former operative, Medusa, having been “enhanced” by the project, and she’s working for Tamoon’s side. She also has a complicated past with Ogden’s former persona, Mia Semm, which gives her more than a little deadly insight into Ogden’s inner workings, making her a most formidable nemesis, indeed.
Have you got all that?
If not, don’t worry! Grobschmidt does his readers a great service by providing a little recap before the action gets underway, and this is a good thing. Because once the story starts, it never lets up. Action-packed from the word go, we bounce from hot pursuit to firefight as Lorelei and her team peel back the layers of Tamoon’s defense to infiltrate his inner sanctum, leading us to a final, deadly showdown. Rife with shifting allegiances and ulterior motives, the characters aren’t always who they seem to be, and Odgen and her team’s very survival is anything but guaranteed.
Well-paced and highly visual in his descriptive storytelling, Grobschmidt has crafted a universe well worth visiting, and you’ll be happy to know that while this is the end of the trilogy, it is NOT the end for the characters—well, at least those that survived. As an added bonus, Grobschmidt includes an intriguing short story, fleshing out one of the secondary characters, but I won’t say who. I might accidentally spoil something, and I’d never want to rob you of the first-hand experience of this trilogy’s thrill ride. What are you waiting for? Get your ticket now!