Garrett's newly minted life with main squeeze Tinnie
isn't all bliss and crackers. Sure, the benefits of having a
gorgeous woman as a regular part of the day is not to be
sneezed at, but his job as security expert for the
Amalgamated Manufacturing Combine is beginning to pall. He
is manfully keeping his promise to stay away from the darker
elements of TunFaire when fate, in the form of two bumbling
would-be kidnappers, brings the seedy side of life back,
front and center. He can hardly ignore an attempt to steal
Tinnie from their bed, now can he? And when his best friend,
Morley Dotes, is found beaten and close to death in an
alley, how is he supposed to turn his back and refuse to
help? Too bad Tinnie's logic doesn't work that way. She
might have taken it better if the news hadn't been brought
to their door by the beautiful-but-deadly Belinda Contague,
empress of organized crime and old (but brief, very brief)
flame from Garrett's past.
Before the new day is much advanced Garrett is back in
action, working out of the house on Macunado street and
gathering info from all his old contacts to pin down who
wanted to kidnap Tinnie, and who had it in for Morley. When
clues left at the scene of the attack hint at some zombie
action, the recent spate of corpse stealing seems to tie in
nicely, but even finding the smelly lab where the
resurrection men brought their booty brings no answers, only
more questions.
A heady mix of Science Fiction/Fantasy blended with
noirish hardboiled detective story, the Garret, PI series is
still going strong through this 13th incarnation. From book
one, Sweet Silver Blues, Glen Cook has woven a world
on the cusp of industrialization where familiar characters
live and grow, and wrapped it all up in a great detective
story laced through with those elements of fantasy and grit
he writes so well. The series was Steampunk seasoned with a
dash of dark Tolkien years before the term Steampunk was
coined, and few authors do it better.
For Garrett, P.I., loyalty and love come a close second to
survival... Garrett's attempt at domestic bliss with the
fiery Tinnie Tate is sidetracked when he waylays a pair of
home intruders and learns they've been paid by an unknown
source to kidnap Tinnie. But as Garrett rushes to find out
who is trying to push his buttons, his best friend is
attacked. Now, Garrett has to track down both malefactors.
Unless they're really one and the same-in which case Garrett
might be next...
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