Eventide, Water City
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Publisher Description
The sequel to Midnight, Water City follows a detective from the depths of earth's oceans to the moon as he unravels a cosmic conspiracy that threatens to destroy the remnants of human life.
Year 2150: Eight years after the murder of Akira Kimura, Water City’s renowned scientist and anointed “God,” the nameless antihero who tracked down Akira’s killer is no longer a detective, but a stay-at-home dad. While his wife climbs the corporate ladder of the city’s police department, he raises their now nine-year-old daughter and occasionally takes the odd job as a bounty hunter.
His domestic bliss is threatened when Ascalon’s Scar—the mark left by Akira’s destruction of Sessho-seki, the asteroid that nearly wiped out life on Earth—vanishes from the sky and a familiar face thought dead returns from the ocean depths to exact revenge on humanity. On a journey to the moon and back, Water City’s antihero will risk everything, including his family, to save the last of the human race—even if it means unraveling the dark conspiracy at the heart of their world.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
The middle volume of McKinney's mystery-SF Water City trilogy (following 2021's Midnight, Water City) continues to combine brilliant worldbuilding and sophisticated plotting. It's 2150, and catastrophic climate change has led to the flooding of coastline cities and the creation of underwater ones. The unnamed series lead, a military assassin turned criminal investigator, has moved to the titular Water City. He's leading a more tranquil existence than he was the last time around, mostly caring for his nine-year-old daughter, while her mother is busy rising through the ranks of the local police department. That tranquility ends, though, not long after his daughter complains she's been bitten while she was swimming in the ocean, though she sports no visible injuries. Then Ascalon's Scar, the lingering frozen remnant of an asteroid that nearly destroyed life on Earth, which has acted as a source of light for the past 50 years, disappears from the sky, and the protagonist is savagely attacked by someone he trusts. The wild investigation that unfolds will take him to the moon and back as he comes to realize that life on Earth is under threat. McKinney keeps readers guessing about the story's direction for much of the novel, and sticks the landing with a near-perfect conclusion. Sci-fi thriller fans will anxiously await the series finale.
