Life on Mars - Rj Johnson

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Auteur(s) : Rj Johnson

Editeur : Lulu Press

Langue : Anglais

Parution : 31/01/2024

Format : Moyen, de 350g à 1kg

Nombre de pages : 412

Dimensions : 20.3 x 12.7 x 2.3

ISBN : 9798985952636

Résumé :

Murder, betrayal, the fate of humanity . . . It's all in a day's work for Jim Meade, the Martian P.I.

It's a dark time for Jim Meade. Ensnared by depression, the Martian P.I. spends the majority of his time and money at the poker tables, gambling what little he has left while drinking every last drop of alcohol he can get his hands on.

Until his oldest friend and mentor, Kansas Greyborn, comes to him with shocking news: Intelligent life has been discovered at a remote outpost deep in the Martian Outback and the scientists who made the discovery have disappeared. Intrigued by the case, Meade agrees to 'unretire' and investigate what happened to the two missing men.

Meade quickly discovers the case is far more twisted than he expected and that he's become caught up within a secret conspiracy. Someone is intent on allowing a fascist dictatorship to take over the fledgling Martian democracy.

Now, he must battle his demons while struggling to save the city he loves before life on Mars becomes a deadly proposition for everyone and everything . . . who call the Red Planet home.

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Sommaire:

Jim Meade saved the world. Twice. It nearly killed him. Twice. These days you'll find what's left at the bottom of a bottle and a losing hand of cards.

The Hero of Rosetta is a wreck. Broke, drinking himself into the red Martian dust, and finished with the detective business for good. Then his oldest friend and mentor, Kansas Greyborn, drops a case on his doorstep that no one else can be trusted with: intelligent life has been discovered at a remote outpost deep in the Martian Outback, and the two scientists who claim they found it have vanished without a trace.

Against every instinct, Meade unretires to take the case. But the deeper he digs, the less the disappearance looks like an accident, and the more it looks like the opening move of something far darker. A secret conspiracy is closing its hand around the throat of Mars's fragile young democracy, and someone means to hand the whole planet over to a dictator.

To stop the deadly conspiracy, Meade will have to do the hardest thing he has ever done. Not outshoot a warlord or outrun a bomb, but climb up out of his own grave, dry out, and become the man the Red Planet needs one more time, before life on Mars turns deadly for everyone and everything ... who calls it home.

Perfect for fans of the near-future Mars of For All Mankind, the world-building of classic Heinlein, and hard-boiled noir where the detective is his own worst enemy.

Life on Mars is the fourth Jim Meade: Martian P.I. novel, a comeback story wrapped in a mystery that begins with a discovery no one can explain, and a perfect place for new readers to meet the wryest detective in the solar system.

In this book:

• A broken hero dragged out of the bottom of a bottle for one last case
• A mystery in the deep Martian Outback that's nothing like it seems
• A secret conspiracy intended to strangle a young democracy in its crib
• The Hero of Rosetta at his lowest, and the long climb back to redemption
• Wry, fast, and vividly real, with a case that keeps twisting

Murder, betrayal, the fate of humanity. It's all in a day's work for Jim Meade, Martian P.I. But this time the toughest fight is the one inside. Scroll up and continue the series today.