Mark Simmons, out-of-work hero, is hired to find a globe-trotting killer. But despite his expertise at taking hits, this killer’s world is more hazardous than Mark imagined. As he follows her footsteps, he’s drawn into a conflict both mystical and political, in which he’s forced to question what it really means to do the right thing. Cold Morning is . . .
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A wealthy young woman with a dichotomous superpower and a troubled personal life attempts to join a terrorist group, yet what does she seek to gain? When lies and conspiracies abound, it becomes difficult to recognize the right choice. The interests of secretive governments, criminal organizations, and desperate outsiders clash and blend as everyone tries to make sense of . . .
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It’s 2042 in the California Free State metroplex of Bay City. Kat and Mouse are a pair of ronin—guns for hire—trying to eke out a living. They have the skill. They have the will. And they have the bad habit of getting in over their heads. Which usually means run-ins with rival ronin, punkergangs, the mob, the . . .
Oct 8, 2009: I enjoyed Kat and Mouse. Fast. Funny. Lots of blood between paragraphs. Read it while liveblogging at The Dispatch. Kept me entertained.
Damn.
Abner Senires has the skills. The chops, as they say in the biz. Writing reads snappy. Characters a little on the diptzy side, though. Lots of action. Good light reading. Very little commas.
Hard to imagine it as a book.
Oct 3, 2009: I appreciate a story about female heroes that don’t take any shit, and that’s basically what Kat and Mouse is about: two futuristic gun-toting, sword-wielding busty babes in the style of the Dirty Pair, wreaking havoc mission by mission.
The writing is very straightforward, more focused on action and dialogue than introspection, with sparse descriptions. The narration of Kat, laden with fluid slang, is on the mark, consistent and quick, and the highlight of the series. Kat’s relationships with her partner [more . . .]