Blade Runner meets Bogart in this blend of science fiction and film noir grit that continues the adventures of Mick Trubble: the hard-drinking, chain-smoking, wry-witted private eye of the future.
Mick has little time to digest the revelations of the New Haven Blues case. After a chance meeting with an old flame, he is sucker-punched by being framed for her murder. In no time his mission to clear his name gets him tangled with the Mafia on one side and the police on the other. Even worse is the growing realization that the mysterious killer is someone that Mick has ties with, a vengeful ghost with an agenda that includes making Mick the most miserable man in the world.
Which pretty much makes it your average day for Mick Trubble. Next stop: a head-on collision with his past and a fateful encounter with the most dangerous dame.
The Troubleshooter takes the noir private-eye trope, shakes it up with some pulp action, and pours it over a dystopian future setting. It's a perfect blend of old and new, combining the grit and lingo of classic films with a slick dystopian cyberpunk environment. So you get your jazz and bourbon, trench coats and fedoras, dames and gangsters along with your flying cars, synthetic humanoids, and towering cities protected by invisible shielding.
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