Sci-fi

When Trouble Beckons

by Mike McQuayBook 2 of 4 in Mathew Swain
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Description

The 21st century's toughest private eye in a future that's running down like a dime-store watch. Where the line between rich and poor is a DMZ and they clean the streets with meat wagons. If you're not tough in a world like that, you're dead. Swain is always first in line. This time it starts with a desperate Moon-to-Earth call from an old flame and a zombie assassin who tries to give Swain a haircut to his knees. To save the woman he loves from mind-wasting madness, Swain takes off for Freefall, a company town with a capital "C." A space colony of palefaced drones who live—and die - by the time clock. When he keeps getting questions instead of answers, Swain, aided by a streetwise lady space cabby, decides to blow the joint apart.

What it’s like

ViolenceGraphic
CombatSkirmish-Heavy
HorrorCreepy
SpiceFade-to-Black
ProfanityModerate

Details

First published
November 1981
Pages
216
Reading time
About 4 hours
Format
Novel
Audience
Adult
Language
English
Series
Mathew Swain, Book 2

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