The Ultra Big Sleep
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- 5,99 лв.
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- 5,99 лв.
Publisher Description
Dave Crowell is a hero of the eight worlds of the Union, but he doesn’t want fame or fortune. These days he just wants to run his private detective business with his partner and forget about the Ultras, the insidious aliens that attacked the Union, then vanished. But a client turns up dead under mysterious circumstances, and Crowell knows the Ultras have not gone away. With the help of a beautiful alien, he uncovers fragments of memory that might lead to his missing father. When it becomes clear that Crowell’s past also contains the information he needs to save the Union, he is caught up in a conspiracy beyond his understanding and pulled into an underworld drug war on a hostile planet. With the crisis deepening, Crowell must learn the answer to the biggest question of all: Where are the Ultras?
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Thin characters and uninspired prose diminish Swenson's second novel featuring 22nd-century PI Dave Crowell (after 2014's The Ultra Thin Man). The opening has some promise as Crowell, hired by a suspicious wife, catches her husband, Alex Richards, in flagrante with a younger woman in a Seattle warehouse. But that routine assignment goes south when Richards snatches the detective's camera and flees further into the warehouse; despite the absence of another exit, the adulterer eludes Crowell and his alien partner, Tom Forno, until they find his corpse stuffed inside a crate. While the mystery of his death remains unresolved, Crowell gets another case, which turns out to be the stereotypical missing-person quest that has a personal angle for the sleuth. His alien client is searching for her father, who like Crowell's father was an envoy and mediator, and who vanished on the same day Crowell's father did. The drama of the setup isn't sustained, and the complex backstory is hard to access.
