Thin Air

De: Richard Morgan

Narrado por: Colin Mace

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE GUARDIAN

Hakan Veil is an ex-corporate enforcer equipped with military-grade body tech that's made him a human killing machine. His former employers have abandoned him on a turbulent Mars where Earth-based overlords battle for profits and power amid a homegrown independence movement. But he's had enough of the red planet, and all he wants is a ticket back home - which is just what he's offered by the Earth Oversight organization, in exchange for being the bodyguard for an EO investigator. It's a beyond-easy gig for a heavy hitter like Veil . . . until it isn't.

When Veil's charge starts looking into the mysterious disappearance of a lottery winner, it stirs up a hornet's nest of intrigue and murder. And the deeper Veil is drawn into the game, the more long-buried secrets claw their way to the Martian surface. Now it's the expert assassin poised against powerful enemies hellbent on taking him down - by any means necessary.

Praise for Thin Air

'Kick-ass . . . Mixed in with the thriller-esque action and cyberpunk backdrop is a hard-boiled noir story complete with a twisting and turning plot that keeps readers on their toes' Los Angeles Times

'Richard Morgan wants to destroy your Mars fantasies . . . It's a grim vision, but one that Morgan finds far more plausible than the cheerful visions of plucky Mars colonists common in sci-fi' Wired

'A robotically enhanced Jack Reacher [in a] dazzlingly intricate game of political double- and triple-cross, spiced with tastily kinetic battle sequences' The Guardian

'If you ever imagined that the core esthetics and themes of cyberpunk-lowlifes and high tech; corporate dominance; future noir; post-human evolution and cyborg adaptations; hardscrabble urban environments-were played out, Thin Air will set you straight, and kick your butt in the process. . . . Both kinematic and cinematic, [Thin Air is] limned by Morgan with balletic precision and smashmouth grace' Paul Di Filippo, Locus

Read by Colin Mace

©2018 Richard Morgan (P)2017 Orion Publishing Group

Vintage Morgan

Totally absorbing, heart' thumping. Totally ruthless protagonist, Mars future environment and cultures deftly and vividly painted.

Great story, let down a little by the reader

The only downside to this book was the person reading it used quite a large range of volume, making it impossible to hear all of the story without deafening myself on the loud parts.

Swearing the entire time. Gets old.

It got through about 25% of it and had to return it. Very little actually happens. The dialog is all swearing and sexual metaphors. It loses it's impact after constantly droning on. Characters are all very thin and not quite believable. Example (spoiler:)

"I'm going arrest you for suspicion of murder... Oh wait a different more major crisis is happening. Congratulations, you are now promoted to be a body guard. We can't afford to send real cops, so you're it."

Really? That's how they do things on Mars?