The Easytown Novels: Books 1-3

De: Brian Parker

Narrado por: Daniel Penz

The Easytown Novels create a frighteningly real near future world beset by climate change, social depravity, moral ambiguity, and corporate greed. Easytown is city with a thousand stories and the hard-nosed homicide detective, Zach Forrest, is determined to learn them all.

Book 1 - The Immorality Clause: Easytown’s robotic pleasure clubs are a serial killer’s playground.

The futuristic slum in eastern New Orleans is a violent place where any vice can be satisfied - for a price. As long as the taxes are paid and tourists continue to flock to the city, businesses are allowed to operate as they see fit. When a string of grisly murders rocks the city, homicide detective Zach Forrest must hunt down the killer responsible before they strike again.

Book 2 - Tears of a Clone: Torture tourism is an illegal sport in Easytown - unless the victim is a clone, then nobody cares.

When Detective Forrest discovers the mutilated bodies of three clones in a garbage compactor, he’s shocked to learn of the multi-million dollar industry of torture tourism. He embarks on an unauthorized investigation and discovers that the truth behind the clone murders is more terrifying than he’d imagined.

Book 3 - West End Droids & East End Dames: Everything comes crashing down on Forrest when a rampaging cyborg attacks, disrupting his investigation into the death of a lowly thumper club doorman who knew too much. Before he can determine his next move, a beautiful evidence clerk lands on his doorstep and forces her way into his life. Meanwhile, the precinct chief tasks him to track down and stop the street doctors who build the abominations.

But, will doing so cost Zach more than he’d expected?

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Slow to start and hard to stop listening! Love it!

Really good sci fi read. Perfect for men. Hope there is another book in this series soon.

Easytown

I absolutely loved this series! I love the old time film noir detectives ala Sam Spade and the protagonist in this book, Zachary Forrest, reminds me of those fedora-wearing guys. I also love the original movie, "Blade Runner", and this series reminded me of that movie many, many times.

Futuristic New Orleans has a section called Easytown (probably today's French Quarter) which specializes in sex clubs populated with sex robots. When several patrons and employees are murdered in gruesome ways, Zach has to try to find out who is doing the killing. Along the way, he becomes involved with a beautiful witness named Paxton Amora. This relationship comes to haunt Zach in more ways than one!

This series has cyborgs, drones, droids, artificial intelligence, as well as drugs, prostitution, and murder. Zach goes about his job in a no-holds barred way, endangering love, life and limb, in order to get his man (or woman).

If you are looking for a well-written cyberpunk series with traces of noir detective novels, this is the one you need to read or listen to. At the end of the third book, Zach has pretty much used up all of his favors within the NOPD, but the author hints at more adventures to come in the next phase of Zach's life.

I love the characters, including Zach's assistant, Andi, who is little like Alexa (but much more fun). The dialogue is great and I especially enjoyed Zach and Andi's interactions. Zach has a smart-assed attitude that won't quit and adds a lot to the book. I loved the idea of the talking toilet that gives you an automatic urine analysis every time you use it.

The narration was wonderful. Mr. Penz didn't just read this book, he portrayed every scene and you feel like you are watching a movie while listening. When the character is in pain, you can feel it in the narration. His performance added a lot to my enjoyment of these books.

Brian Parker has done an excellent job with this series and I look forward to reading more of his work. He has built a world full of well-developed characters and futuristic technology that will keep the biggest cyperpunk fan reading. I will definitely recommend his writing to my friends!

I was given the chance to listen to the audiobook version of this series through Audiobook Boom! and chose to review it.

Great box set

I was getting burned out on my regular reads and picked this box set up. Wow! I loved the narrator and all the different characters voices with the help of some voice modulators too. It was very engaging and fun to listen to. Great main characters and I already picked up the next book in the series.
I agree with other reviews, I hope there's more to come 🙏

A strange soap opera of an adventure

This is just fun! The plots twist just enough to maintain interest. The characters evolve just enough to be loveable. Some of the bad guys are really evil, some not so much.

Recommended to all fans of Stargate or Serenity... this adventure takes place on Earth, but it’s fun, romp around, shoot em up work of the future (with robots not aliens!)

I received this audiobook for free in exchange for a review.

Give this one a try!

First of all, I bought this series, and did not receive it to review. I wanted something "cyberpunk" and gritty, and this one really got me. There are 3 separate stories, each one stands in it's own right. I got really involved with all the main characters, and the setting is great. If you like cyberpunk or noir, I urge you to give this one a chance!