Shyft

Lost Time #2

by Damien Boyes

Finsbury Gage will do anything to find the man who murdered his wife. He'll withhold information from his superiors in the Psychorithm Crime Unit. He'll cut corners. He'll steal evidence. He'll even augment his prosthetic brain with illegal code.

But once he's tasted the power of living at the speed of thought, able to predict seconds into the future, how will he ever go back? And once he's relaxed his grip on humanity, how far will he let it slip to find justice for his wife?

He'll find out eight months later, when he wakes once again in a new body with a new name and no memory of his first restoration. He soon discovers he was somehow involved in a series of mindjackings, his friends and colleagues disappeared or locked-up for crimes they don't remember committing. And the person behind them is still out there. Hunting for him.

Will Finsbury be able to uncover the mystery of what he became in time to stop more people from getting hurt, or will he succumb to the same temptations and make the same mistakes all over again?

Find out in Lost Time Part Three: Shyft.

Genres: Science Fiction, Ebooks

151 pages, Kindle Edition

First published December 26, 2015

About the author

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.

Reviews

[David Pospisil · Rating 4 out of 5]

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

[Non Pantalones]

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!

[Stephen Ragsdale · Rating 3 out of 5]

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.

[Lyf · Rating 4 out of 5]

An excellent follow up that keeps you right in it the whole time! Loving this series!!!

[Lyf · Rating 4 out of 5]

A solid entry in the Lost Time series.