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The Ultra Thin Man

The Ultra Thin Man, August 2014
by Patrick Swenson

Tor Books
Featuring: Alan Brindos; David Crowell
336 pages
ISBN: 0765336944
EAN: 9780765336941
Kindle: B00J6TY31I
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"As a moon crashes into a planet two detectives must find and stop the terrorist"

Fresh Fiction Review

The Ultra Thin Man
Patrick Swenson

Reviewed by Shellie Surles
Posted May 7, 2015

Science Fiction

Coral Moon is crashing into its home planet of Ribon causing a mass evacuation and deaths. Dave Cromwell and Alan Brindos, contract detectives for Network Intelligence Organization must catch the terrorists before even more people are murdered. As they begin to search for Terl Plenko the believed head of the terrorist organization, they get split up and begin to discover even more dangerous and deadly possibilities for humankind.

Each detective is forced to fight to survive and discover the most important question of all who or what is THE ULTRA THIN MAN and can the universe survive it?

An interesting story and concept with serious world building, THE ULTRA THIN MAN, almost grabs too much leaving the reader a little confuse as to who and what are where. Patrick Swenson jumps into his world and you know he see it all in his head and has grabbed for a huge beginning to his writing career. I had a hard time getting into the story but don't let that discourage you, it just may not of have for me. I don't mind jumping around in a story as long as you don't feel like you're getting lost with each jump.

THE ULTRA THIN MAN is a first novel for Patrick Swenson and he has created a world that grows and bad guys whose crimes can hopefully never be matched.

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SUMMARY

"In the twenty-second century, a future in which mortaline wire controls the weather on the settled planets and entire refugee camps drowse in drug- induced slumber, no one--alive or dead, human or alien--is quite what they seem. When terrorists manage to crash Coral, the moon, into its home planet of Ribon, forcing evacuation, it's up to Dave Crowell and Alan Brindos, contract detectives for the Network Intelligence Organization, to solve a case of interplanetary consequences. Crowell' and Brindos's investigation plunges them neck-deep into a conspiracy much more dangerous than anything they could have imagined. The two detectives soon find themselves separated, chasing opposite leads: Brindos has to hunt down the massive Helkunn alien Terl Plenko, shadow leader of the terrorist Movement of Worlds. Crowell, meanwhile, runs into something far more sinister--an elaborate frame job that puts our heroes on the hook for treason. Crowell and Brindos are forced to fight through the intrigue to discover the depths of an interstellar conspiracy. And to answer the all- important question: Who, and what, is the Ultra Thin Man?"--


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