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Midnight Riot<\/span><\/a> Promo copy:<\/span><\/p>\n Probationary Constable Peter Grant dreams of being a detective in London\u2019s Metropolitan Police. Too bad his superior plans to assign him to the Case Progression Unit, where the biggest threat he\u2019ll face is a paper cut. But Peter\u2019s prospects change in the aftermath of a puzzling murder, when he gains exclusive information from an eyewitness who happens to be a ghost. Peter\u2019s ability to speak with the lingering dead brings him to the attention of Detective Chief Inspector Thomas Nightingale, who investigates crimes involving magic and other manifestations of the uncanny. Now, as a wave of brutal and bizarre murders engulfs the city, Peter is plunged into a world where gods and goddesses mingle with mortals and a long-dead evil is making a comeback on a rising tide of magic.<\/p>\n \n The Remembering: Book Three of The Meq<\/span><\/a> \n The Human Blend<\/span><\/a> Promo copy:<\/span><\/p>\n Alan Dean Foster\u2019s brilliant new novel is a near-future thriller that has all the dark humor and edgy morality of an Elmore Leonard mystery, in addition to the masterly world-building and quirky but believable characters readers expect from Foster. This gripping adventure reveals a place where criminals are punished through genetic engineering and bodily manipulation\u2014which poses profound questions about what it means to be human.<\/p>\n Given his name because radical surgery and implants have reduced him to preternatural thinness, Whispr is a thug. His partner in crime, Jiminy Cricket, has also been physically altered with nanocarbonic prosthetic legs and high-strength fast-twitch muscle fibers that give him great jumping abilities. In a dark alley in Savannah, Whispr and Jiminy murder what they take to be a random tourist in order to amputate and then fence his sophisticated artificial hand. But the hapless victim also happens to be carrying an unusual silver thread that appears to be some kind of storage medium. Ever quick to scent potential profit, Whispr and Jiminy grab the thread as well.<\/p>\n Chance later deposits a wounded Whispr at the clinic of Dr. Ingrid Seastrom. Things have not gone smoothly for Whispr since he acquired the mysterious thread. Powerful forces are searching for him, and Jiminy has vanished. All Whispr wants to do is sell the thread as quickly as he can. When he offers to split the profits with Ingrid in exchange for her medical services, she makes an astonishing discovery.<\/p>\n So begins a unique partnership. Unlike Whispr, Ingrid is a natural, with no genetic or bodily alteration. She is also a Harvard-educated physician, while Whispr\u2019s smarts are strictly of the street variety. Yet together they make a formidable team\u2014as long as they can elude the enhanced assassins that are tracking them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Let\u2019s take a quick look to see what\u2019s arrived in the mail here at the Geek Compound. Midnight Riot by Ben Aaronovitch Promo copy: Probationary Constable Peter Grant dreams of being a detective in London\u2019s Metropolitan Police. Too bad his … Continue reading
\nby Ben Aaronovitch<\/span><\/p>\n![](\"http:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51CDbSvZq%2BL._SL500_AA300_.jpg\")
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\nby Steve Cash<\/span><\/p>\n![](\"http:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51DmnNrUBuL._SL500_AA300_.jpg\")
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\nby Alan Dean Foster<\/span><\/p>\n