I'm a sucker for private eye books let alone private eye in space books. In a way that makes me more critical of the genre as I do know what I like. This does not have the overtones of humor that the Glen Cook Garrett books have, which I dearly love. However this does have a lot of soul searching angst. That can get tedious but Roelke did a great job in making it real rather than tedious.
The tale is of a P.I. on the Perseus space station gets a
client who he is inexplicably attracted to, despite their dramatic age
differences. Burt, the P.I., is both
protective and derisive of the client and can not determine why.
The client, Wade Hampton, is an ancestral starship captain
which imbues her with wealth, prestige and power. In Wade's case this does not mean
maturity. Wade is a teen with great
power, great self control and periodically normal teen behavior in spite of her
best efforts to be an adult.
Burt's personal demons are hidden and a source of enormous
frustration. He does not know what some
of his greatest motivators are and is unawre that they are intentionally
shrouded in mystery.
The story has action, brutality, robots and space ships,
what more could you want.
The hard nose P.I. discovers many things about himself as
does his client.
I really enjoyed the book and hope to see a sequel!
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This book may have been received free of charge from a publisher or a publicist. That will NEVER have a bearing on my recommendations.
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