Restored to life by Second Skyn, Finsbury Gage hunts rogue minds for the Toronto Police Service's Psychorithm Crime Unit while secretly searching for his wife's killer.
He's conflicted, torn between staying true to who he was and accepting what he's become—something both more, and less, than human. He'll do whatever it takes to find the man who murdered his wife, even if it means losing who he is.
Then, eight months later, Finsbury wakes in a new body, hidden under a new name, with no memories of how he got there. He's been disgracefully discharged from the police force, his reputation's in tatters, he's the primary suspect in a murder, and his wife's death is the last thing he can remember.
To find out who he is, Finsbury Gage will have to discover who he became.
But will he be able to live with himself when he does?
Damien grew up on Terminator and Raymond Chandler and Green Lantern. On Deus Ex and PWEI. Blade Runner is his chicken soup when he's sick. He rereads Neuromancer every few years, and still loves the image of payphones ringing one by one as Case walks by, anachronistic or not.
He's a UX designer by day, a dad and husband by night, and a writer in the moments in between.
Great cyberpunk type story focused on manufactured replacement bodies and brains. Loved the characters and the tense interplay between the humans and Reszo's (restored humans). On to the next book in the series
Good series - I definitely recognized some of the ingredients here, a bit of Blade Runner, a smidge of Neuromancer... looking forwards to the next one!
The second book picks up right where we left off in book one. Fin and G1bzon are getting closer to the answers they are looking for. If you liked the first book, then you'll like this one. Again we end with more questions than answers. Who can he trust, who works for who, how does everything piece together? Hopefully it concludes in the 3rd installment.