Genesys X
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- $7.99
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- $7.99
Publisher Description
Part noir science-fiction and part twisted new-take on Greek myth, Genesys X is a page-turning police procedural featuring an unforgettable haunted detective.
Los Angeles, 2041. Derma ads have replaced skin tattoos; the Nike Swoosh is projected onto the full moon, and digital sponsor logos run along the side of every police sedan. But the city is under siege from a gang war which has flooded the streets with Green Ice, a drug more powerful and deadly than fentanyl. And there's a new plague; Alzheimer's disease has spawned a virulent new strain, Alz-X, that attacks children. No one knows why.
Eddie Piedmont, the youngest Homicide Special detective in LAPD history, has a lot to prove. Growing up with an abusive Green Ice junkie for a father, Eddie is determined to show he is nothing like his old man who was kicked off the force years ago. When Eddie takes on a case of a fatal overdose, he finds evidence that ties the dead woman to a geneticist working on the cure for Alz-X.
When another suspicious death occurs, Eddie is drawn into the nefarious world of cutting-edge reproductive technology, only to discover terrible secrets at the heart of his identity and his family's history that will pull him much closer to the murderer than he could ever have imagined.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In 2041 Los Angeles, the setting of Graf's ambitious if flawed debut and series launch, biotechnology firms are racing to manufacture a cure for a virulent new strain of Alzheimer's that's attacking the young. Desperate researchers have grown more aggressive, taking reckless, unethical approaches in pursuit of unfathomable profits. Meanwhile, the police are struggling to contain a gang war erupting over control of the flooded market of a synthetic opioid 50 times stronger than heroin. Homicide detective Eddie Piedmont catches the case of the accidental overdose of a 27-year-old stripper who was believed to be blackmailing a scandal-plagued microbiologist. Piedmont, looking to prove himself and get out from underneath his ex-cop father's legacy of corruption and addiction, winds up in the crosshairs of both internal affairs and a powerful street gang after responding to a call about a reckless driver escalates into him killing a member of the gang. The final act relies heavily on melodramatic catastrophes and coincidental revelations to tie together plot threads. Subtle undercurrents of Greek tragedy suggest Graf is capable of better next time.
