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Apollo
When he isn't peddling guns to the Night Market, Apollo just wants to be left alone. That self-imposed exile is his antidote to a life filled with violence--a life he wants to leave behind. When the transcendent demigod he once tried to murder drags him back into the thick of things, Apollo must ally with an agent of a rival nation to tear down the City he's never been able to completely leave behind.
204 pages, Paperback
Published March 2, 2017
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August 2, 2017
I obtained this book through the Kindle Unlimited program.
Apollo is a retired assassin in a far post-apocalyptic world. He makes primitive firearms for people who need them, or want them, and sustains himself on the proceeds.
He has no friends, and the few friendly acquaintances he permits are customers in the formal black market outside the fortress city of Londonsberg.
In this future, nothing that we would recognize as a country exists; instead, smaller areas are ruled with an iron fist by demagogues, who evidently spend most of their time thinking about how they want to kill each other. The worst of these is Duke Charlie, autocrat of Londonsberg, supported by his killer subordinate Alexander.
While Apollo doesn't like anybody, he especially doesn't like Alexander. We are gradually exposed to bits and pieces of their shared history, but it is the bitter hatred between Apollo and Alexander that drives the plot.
Above the dukes and kings, there exist a shadow organization known as the Immaculata. They evidently administer the technology that is indistinguishable from magic.
The nature of Londonsberg makes it almost a character in it's own right. Surrounded by an impenetrable wall, the activities of the city dwellers rigidly governed, patrolled by the secret police; it's a nasty, nasty hive.
Plenty of unresolved plot lines and characters with more work to do, I expect we will see more of the world. Frankly, though, unless a real alternative is presented to the repressive nightmare of life in Londonsberg, I'll take a pass. (There MAY (!) already be a solution in place!)
Apollo is a retired assassin in a far post-apocalyptic world. He makes primitive firearms for people who need them, or want them, and sustains himself on the proceeds.
He has no friends, and the few friendly acquaintances he permits are customers in the formal black market outside the fortress city of Londonsberg.
In this future, nothing that we would recognize as a country exists; instead, smaller areas are ruled with an iron fist by demagogues, who evidently spend most of their time thinking about how they want to kill each other. The worst of these is Duke Charlie, autocrat of Londonsberg, supported by his killer subordinate Alexander.
While Apollo doesn't like anybody, he especially doesn't like Alexander. We are gradually exposed to bits and pieces of their shared history, but it is the bitter hatred between Apollo and Alexander that drives the plot.
Above the dukes and kings, there exist a shadow organization known as the Immaculata. They evidently administer the technology that is indistinguishable from magic.
The nature of Londonsberg makes it almost a character in it's own right. Surrounded by an impenetrable wall, the activities of the city dwellers rigidly governed, patrolled by the secret police; it's a nasty, nasty hive.
Plenty of unresolved plot lines and characters with more work to do, I expect we will see more of the world. Frankly, though, unless a real alternative is presented to the repressive nightmare of life in Londonsberg, I'll take a pass. (There MAY (!) already be a solution in place!)
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