Human society is in a state of decay, if not quite chaotic dissolution, as the alien culture imposes certain disciplines whilst leaving humans with a veneer of independence. We are in a recently invaded world by a civilisation of ‘slicks’ that mankind is still far short of understanding. I love writing that can shatter walls between genres, between readers fixed ideas of like, and this book does that well. Those that love murder mystery will find themselves comfortably stationed within a science fiction world and vice versa. Mixed genre- well put together no, very well put together. In the end, Detective Grace discovers that the killer might just be the last person he would have suspected.Ī story about betrayal, redemption, faith, fear, and hope, The Last Detective is a thrilling look at what happens to humanity when our world crumbles around us. But worst of all, he stumbles onto a conspiracy that puts the fate of the entire city in jeopardy. He reluctantly agrees, and in the course of his investigation witnesses the best, and the worst, that humanity has to offer: a plot to escape the labor camps a pending war between an in-your-face councilwoman and the corrupt city mayor and a priest who claims to have befriended the dead alien.
When one of the slicks is murdered, they ask him to find the killer. The unlucky few are rounded up and carted off to labor camps to face an unknown fate.įormer homicide detective Adrian Grace was cut off from his family, but has somehow managed to survive. The lucky ones are left to their own devices. Two years since the slicks came to our planet and herded humanity together like cattle, placing us under constant watch in the few cities that remain.
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