This is the second book set in a future where whites, blacks and browns live in uneasy harmony. Anglet Sutonga is a teenage steeplejack. One of if not the premier steeplejack in Bar-Selhem turned private eye or perhaps special agent. Someone has stolen some documents and her personal government official tasks her with finding them.
Hartley did an excellent job creating a community that seems to combine aspects of Victorian society with a respect for the press and uneasy race relations. Anglet’ ethics and morality give her frequent pause in this book. She is faced with a sociopath with semblances of a racist and a Hitler clone who frighten her and nauseate her simultaneously.
Current events play a part as there are refugees driven from their homes by war and civilians interfering in government plots as well as nefarious government plots.
I highly recommend this second book and love the strong female protagonist. I pleased to find that Hartley, a noted male author, has gone out of his way to feature a strong female protagonist in this new series.
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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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