By Jonathan Lethem
Gumshoe Conrad Metcalf has problems-there's a rabbit in his ready room and a trigger-happy kangaroo on his tail. Near-future Oakland is a courageous new global the place developed animals are contributors of society, the police visual display unit voters by means of their karma degrees, and mind-numbing medicines corresponding to Forgettol and Acceptol are the entire rage. Metcalf has been shadowing Celeste, the spouse of an prosperous health professional. maybe he is falling a bit in love along with her even as. whilst the medical professional turns up useless, our amiable investigator unearths himself stuck in a crossfire among the men from the Inquisitor's place of work and gangsters who function out of the again room of a bar known as the Fickle Muse. blending components of sci-fi, noir, and secret, this shrewdpermanent first novel from the writer of Motherless Brooklyn is a wry, humorous, and satiric examine all that the longer term may possibly carry.
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I squirmed and ended up with a mouthful of wrist. “Don’t question us, flathead. ” They shoved me forward, at the revolving door. ” I bustled through the revolving door, my hand up over my mouth. An evolved dachshund was in the compartment across from me, waddling his way into the building, and when I pushed on the glass, he was ejected into the lobby faster than his little legs would carry him. He fell in a sprawl across the tiles in front of the two inquisitors, and as I looked back, they were helping him to his feet.
The newsman named the inquisitors who would be handling the case, said that Stanhunt had been separated from his wife, and that was it. When it was over, I switched stations, hoping to pick up some other coverage, but it must have played as the lead story all across the dial, the moment the morning ban on verbiage lifted, and there wasn’t any more. My feelings were mixed. I hadn’t figured on knowing the victim. Maynard Stanhunt was an arrogant man, an affluent doctor who’d built up a pretty good surplus of karmic points to match what must have been a pile in the bank, and he let you know it, but in subtle ways.
I’ll find out who killed Stanhunt, and why. ” I dropped the newspaper on the table, but the effect was lost in the darkness. ” I asked. There was a pause. I looked into Angwine’s face, but I couldn’t read anything. “I threatened him,” he said finally. “They’ve got a letter I wrote. But they’re misinterpreting—” “Morgenlander said it was blackmail. ” “It was more personal than that. My sister worked for him, and it was ruining her life. ” “She’s raising a child for him, a babyhead. It’s a little monster—” “All babyheads are monsters,” I said, and then I made a guess and knew I was right.
