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The Ultra Thin Man

✍ Scribed by Swenson, Patrick

Book ID: 107777623
Publisher: Tor Books
Year: 2013
Tongue: English
Weight: 184 KB
Category: Fiction
ISBN-13: 9780765336941

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✦ Synopsis

In thetwenty-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 onealive or dead, human or alienis quite whatthey seem. When terrorists manage to crash Coral, the moon, into its home planet of Ribon, forcing evacuation, its up to Dave Crowell and Alan Brindos, contract detectives for the Network Intelligence Organization, to solve a case of interplanetary consequences. Crowell and Brindoss 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 sinisteran elaborate frame job that puts our heroes on the hook for treason.

In this novel from Patrick Swenson, 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?

About the Author

PATRICKSWENSON began Talebones magazine in 1995, and in 2000 started Fairwood Press, a small SF book press. Ultra Thin Man is his first novel and he is currently working on the sequel.

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