Dead Mann Running
A Hessius Mann Novel
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Publisher Description
Just because a bullet has your name on it doesn’t mean you shouldn’t duck…
Either I’m stubborn, or it’s rigor mortis, but being dead didn’t stop me from being a detective or finding my wife’s killer. But it’s tough out there for a zombie, and lately it’s been getting tougher. These days the life-challenged have to register and take monthly tests to prove our emotional stability. See, if my kind gets too low, we go feral. I’ve been feeling a little down lately myself…
So when a severed arm—yeah, just the arm—leaves a mysterious briefcase at my office, my assistant, Misty, thinks figuring out where it came from will keep me on track. But this case goes deeper and darker than I imagined, and my imagination gets pretty dark. Turns out the people after it know more about my past life than I can remember, and even more about what I’ve become.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Petrucha builds on his first highly creative zombie detective novel, 2011's Dead Mann Walking, in this top-notch sequel, which has enough action, deduction, and humor to be a must-read for urban fantasy fans. In the near future, a huge chemical manufacturing concern, ChemBet, has developed a "self-perpetuating, neo-magical Radical Invigoration Procedure, RIP for short." The process has created an underclass of zombies, subject to registration with the government and testing to identify those who will turn violent. Narrator Hessian Mann, an ex-cop turned PI, was executed for his supposed crimes and then subjected to RIP after DNA evidence exonerated him. Mann is gratified to hear that the inventor of RIP has apparently taken his own life eight years after sharing his discoveries with the world. The news coincides with the arrival in Mann's office of an unusual client, even for him: a disembodied arm carrying a suitcase containing two vials of a mysterious blue liquid. Petrucha cleverly constructs an investigation with far-reaching implications, making the most of his fully realized setting.
