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Mercury's Son

By: Luke E.T. Hindmarsh
Narrated by: Daniel Dorse
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"Blade Runner meets Memento." (C.T. Phipps, best-selling author of The Rules of Supervillainy)

Valko can see the last moments of a victim's life. It comes at a price - a scrap of flesh cut from his brain and replaced with an implant. Bound to a drug that lets him use his insight but brings with it the pain of synthetic emotion, he's at war with himself.

Now, a killer has found a way to hide from him, and two people are dead. Someone wants to keep their secrets buried. The trail leads out into the wasteland where death flies on the wind as nanotech dust.

Manipulated and betrayed, Valko must get to the truth before his time runs out.

If he only knew who to trust, maybe he'd have a chance, but a man with an artificial soul can't even trust himself....

©2018 Luke Hindmarsh (P)2019 David N. Wilson Cyberpunk Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction Technothrillers Thriller Thriller & Suspense Fiction Technology
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I gave the book four stars last year as the concept and character stood out to me from the raft of trad published books that were solid but not sensational. I’ve just finished the audiobook and unusually revised my rating.

It is a damn good reading, with an unusual narrator the words with the myriad cultural blend of post apocalyptic outpost living. It takes a while but us fitting. Two issues with the audiobook - one is a chapter issue audible are fixing and secondly the Hampton voice didn’t do it for me.

It is hard not to like the Deckard vibe with Valko. It’s a cracking name and I do like how it’s balanced by him being a weedy shit. I think of Bale in Equilibrium for visualisation, but that was a shocking film.

What stood out for me was how it filtered together for a stonking last hour of listening. As a result I’ve adjusted my rating.

I’m left not sure who to have sympathy for as Valko and Oshi are messed up beyond all recognition, but still exist with themselves. A testament to the humanity they lack in the first page. One to leave you thinking, and a taster no doubt for future nanite mayhem.


5* book
4* Audiobook.

Any fan of Mad Max, Bladerunner and Oblivion will be well at home here.

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