5/30/2023 0 Comments In thin air bookThe first-person narration is casual and coarse, as befits a former mercenary, yet imagistic and sensuously attuned What follows is a dazzlingly intricate game of political double- and triple-cross, spiced with tastily kinetic battle sequences. Now down on his luck and living in a Mars district colloquially known as the Gash – like everything in the future, its streets look like those of Blade Runner – he gets a job as a bodyguard for a visitor from Earth, part of a delegation conducting an “audit” on the troublesome colony. Veil used to be an “overrider”, employed by the amusingly named gigacorporation COLIN to lie holed up in cryogenic stasis aboard commercial spaceships in case of mutiny or other profit-endangering emergency, at which point he would emerge from his hatch and kill all the troublemakers.
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