Blood Orbit by K. Richardson

Blood Orbit

K. Richardson

Pyr · Print & ebook · May 8, 2018

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Who it’s for
A police procedural where cybernetic forensics meet corporate power and a dangerous investigation.
Themes
Corporate corruption, Class prejudice, Mass murder and conspiracy
Genres
Sci-Fi Crime, Police Procedurals, Cyberpunk

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About this book

This science fiction police procedural pairs an idealistic rookie with an officer who uses cybernetic implants to process forensics; in solving a mass murder, they will uncover a vast conspiracy. Eric Matheson, an idealistic rookie cop trying to break from his powerful family, is plunged into the investigation of a brutal crime in his first weeks on the job in Angra Dastrelas, the corrupt capital city of the corporate-owned planet Gattis.

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A newcomer to the planet, Matheson is unaware of the danger he's courting when he's promoted in the field to assist the controversial Chief Investigating Forensic Officer, Inspector J. P. Dillal, the planet's first cybernetically enhanced investigator. Coming from a despised ethnic underclass, the brilliant and secretive Dillal seems determined to unravel the crime regardless of the consequences. The deeper they dig, the more dangerous the investigation becomes. But in a system where the cops enforce corporate will, instead of the law, the solution could expose Gattis's most shocking secrets and cost thousands of lives--including Matheson's and Dillal's.

Forensics Under Pressure

A police procedural where cybernetic forensics meet corporate power and a dangerous investigation.

Come here for

  • Crime-solving sharpened by a cybernetically enhanced investigator
  • A rookie-and-veteran partnership under mounting pressure

Expect

  • Forensic inquiry tangled with corporate control
  • A tense investigation with consequences beyond the crime

Where it sits

Cyberpunk79%
Sci-Fi Crime75%
Police Procedurals65%

Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.

Publisher categories

  • Police Procedurals
  • Hard Sci-Fi
  • Cyberpunk
Authors
K. Richardson
Publisher
Pyr
Published
May 8, 2018
Format
Print & ebook
Theme
Corporate corruption · Class prejudice · Mass murder and conspiracy
Reading lane
Police Procedurals