The main character (whose name isn't revealed until the end of the book) is a telepath who was kicked out of the Guild because of his addiction to a powerful drug akin to heroine. He is now clean and works as a consultant for the DeKalb county police, mostly performing suspect interviews.
The novel is set in a near-future, mostly post-apocalyptic Atlanta, Georgia. The apocalypse was the Tech Wars, wherein a large group of tech-savvy individuals used everyone's technological interconnectedness as a means of control and destruction. These wars took place mostly in Europe and North America. The world was saved by the Guild, which all but the lowest-level telepaths must be members of. The Guild got "very ugly" in order to win the Tech Wars. As a result, people are generally afraid of the telepaths' ability. But they were also so grateful, that the Guild was able to attain for itself near-autonomy through a series of accords with various governments.
One of the Guild's perogatives is to police its own members, and it has been effective in doing so, until now. It appears that a high-level telepath is committing serial murders and the Guild is not doing anything about it. In response, the DeKalb county police, with the help of the main character, has decided to take on the murder cases, without the help of, and maybe in spite of, the Guild.
This book is the first in a new series.
The novel is set in a near-future, mostly post-apocalyptic Atlanta, Georgia. The apocalypse was the Tech Wars, wherein a large group of tech-savvy individuals used everyone's technological interconnectedness as a means of control and destruction. These wars took place mostly in Europe and North America. The world was saved by the Guild, which all but the lowest-level telepaths must be members of. The Guild got "very ugly" in order to win the Tech Wars. As a result, people are generally afraid of the telepaths' ability. But they were also so grateful, that the Guild was able to attain for itself near-autonomy through a series of accords with various governments.
One of the Guild's perogatives is to police its own members, and it has been effective in doing so, until now. It appears that a high-level telepath is committing serial murders and the Guild is not doing anything about it. In response, the DeKalb county police, with the help of the main character, has decided to take on the murder cases, without the help of, and maybe in spite of, the Guild.
This book is the first in a new series.
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I play air tambourine. Competitively.
I play air tambourine. Competitively.
Happy November! What are you reading this month?
01/11/2012 09:03:21 AM
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Nothing. I suck.
01/11/2012 02:42:18 PM
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How far did you get in Middlemarch?
01/11/2012 04:58:05 PM
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At the moment, Wise Man's Fear. And then I bought a new batch of books again.
01/11/2012 07:54:43 PM
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Did I mention George Eliot is awesome? Pity her best quotes tend to be too long for the QotM.. *NM*
09/11/2012 11:13:01 PM
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With a bit of luck, I might find the time to do this 'reading' thing.
01/11/2012 09:15:12 PM
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The Quantum Thief by Hannu Rajaniemi
06/11/2012 02:23:17 PM
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I have to find if my brother still has a copy of that.
06/11/2012 06:09:15 PM
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Clean by Alex Hughes
19/11/2012 03:38:42 PM
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