Lunatic City

By: T. Allen Diaz

Narrated by: Tom Campbell

Length: 7 hrs and 25 mins

Publisher's summary

A detective off the job. An offer he can’t refuse. Will the moon’s shadowy underworld pay the bills or surround him with darkness?

Lunar Colony, 2250. Detective Frank Parker never lets the law get in his way. After an unauthorized investigation into his partner's murder gets him suspended, the only way he can make ends meet is to take on a dodgy contract. And in the blink of an eye, a mafioso entertainment mogul becomes his new boss....

As he tracks down a desperate thief, he discovers a street gang's hit list that features his estranged wife and his daughter at the very top. Struggling to protect the innocent from the wrong side of the law, Parker must break more than the rules to keep his family alive.

Can Parker restore justice before the dark side of the moon buries the people he loves?

Lunatic City is the first book in the gripping Lunatic City sci-fi noir series. If you like edgy stories, gritty detectives, and futuristic street gangs, then you’ll love T. Allen Diaz’s hard-boiled novel.

Buy Lunatic City to live in a high-tech underworld today!

©2015 T. Allen Diaz (P)2019 T. Allen Diaz

Good Short Fun

I enjoyed this book. Frank, the MC, is a flawed anti hero many of us love to read about. There’s a lot going on in this story, so don’t expect everything to be resolved by the time the story reaches its climax. This is the first in what I assume is a series of books. I was hoping to truly see how the events of this book unfurl, but there’s a sequel and I’ll be picking it up soon.

The narration was good. The performance was exactly how I’d picture a character like Frank to sound.

The world of the moon is well thought out and crafted, from the scenery, the story, and the political machinations. My biggest thing was that gravity plays a part in the action at times, but other times it doesn’t seem to follow established rules. These instances are few between, however.

My biggest critique of the book, and this is probably a personal thing, is that the phrase “several long seconds” in a few variations pops up a lot, at least once in rapid succession. Every time it showed up it jarred me. Barring this, I enjoyed the listen and recommend the book to others.

Alright story, terrible narrator

The story was ok. Basic gritty noir but set on the moon (though that only seems to matter occasionally, it seems moon gravity comes and goes as needed). The real problem is the narrator. He seems to have four “voices”: normal, breathy, gravely, and nasally. Women are nearly all breathy (but occasionally nasally), maybe three of characters are gravely, and the rest are nasally. Big bouncer? Nasally voice. Petite lawyer? Nasally voice. Random criminal? Nasally voice. It’s frankly comical most of the time.