Many other things get blown in the process as well, like a Mary Engine and a floor of a secret lab. ■ Peter’s job begins as “to find the rat among the mice,” meaning the SCC suspects corporate espionage but couldn’t suss out the infiltrator, and the job ends with him breaking and entering in the middle of the night with two librarians in tow, and then getting fired when his cover is blown. ■ As Peter later discovers, the SCC’s big secret is an AI that’s so advanced that it passes the Turing Test multiple times, but of course it turns out to be too good to be true. the Falcon division), and there’s scant evidence that it could be dealing in unsanctioned magic. ■ This tech co., the Serious Cybernetic Corporation (SCC), is suspected to be up to no good by the Metropolitan Police (esp. His background in law enforcement and subsequent suspension makes him the ideal candidate for an investigator job in the private sector, at a tech company run by an Elon Musk type of character, to be precise.

■ Once cleared of the Chorley execution, Peter goes undercover… as himself because, as he said, it’s much easier to pull off the disguise this way. Instead, it’s been five months since and things are back to normal, relatively speaking. We don’t get to see the direct fallout from that incident. ■ This book doesn’t pick up where Lies Sleeping left off, with Martin Chorley shot dead and Lesley May on the lamb. So this isn’t a review per se, just a list of things I thought were interesting and would like to remember.Īnother *spoiler warning* just in case the spoiler tag isn’t working My mistake was reading it too quickly the first time, so I had to read it again slower the second time and was able to savor all the finer points that made this book such a great addition to the series as a whole.

There were so many things I enjoyed about this installment, and those things brought back all the good feelings I had when I first started the series all those years ago.

He can work on whatever he wants from now on and I won’t make snide comments as long as he keeps on producing this level of quality.Įverything in this installment of the series is exactly what I’d been missing from the last two books, The Hanging Tree and Lies Sleeping, and it’s such a breath of fresh air to see the arch moving away from Lesley May and the Faceless Man mystery and see it heading into something new and exciting. So good that I’m no longer side-eyeing all those other things Ben Aaronovitch worked on last year instead of this book. *side-eyeing every single comic book Ben Aaronovitch worked on this year instead on this book* The next book in one of my favorite series with a cover done in my favorite color scheme. Location: several board meetings in a row in which I didn’t have to present anything

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