Futuristic thriller... what 1984 could have been if Orwell was a capitalist. And a very exciting read. Excellent stuff.

Chris Faulkner has just landed the job of his dreams. But Shorn Associates are market leaders in Conflict Investment. They expect results, they expect the best. Chris has one very high-profile kill to his name already but he will have to drive hard and go for kill after kill if he's to keep his bosses happy. All he has to do in the meantime is stay alive . . . Morgan's new futuristic thriller is perfect for any fan of the modern thriller. It combines the big ideas of Michael Crichton with a pounding narrative drive.

Passed to UrbanSpaceman at the Unconvention, Apres Café Bar, Summerrow.

Acquired at the Unconvention last weekend from AliceF. She says it is not SF. I say look who published it and under which category!

Onto the the TBR pile...

I enjoyed reading this. Morgan is very good at high-octance, violent SF. That said, this wasn't as good as good as his two Takeshi Kovacs novel Altered Carbon and Broken Angels which I would recommend if you like this.

In the front of the book, it says it was originally conceived as a screenplay and I think it shows. Morgan excels, as always, at bleak, broken, dystopian futures where life is cheap. The idea of Conflict Investment - finance companies directly investing in wars for profit - is an excellent one and Morgan has thought out the sort of world that would result in detail. What I found less convincing was the idea of promotions being awarded and contracts being assigned through fights using cars. As Morgan notes, he bears a debt both to the films Mad Max and Rollerball. The 'car wars' aspect of it seem to me to be something designed to appeal to movie makers rather a really integral part of the plot.

I'll take this to The Clarence later today and release it.

RELEASE NOTES:

On the barrel just on the right inside the front door.