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Red Planet Blues

By: Robert J. Sawyer
Narrated by: Perry Daniels
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Incorporating the Hugo & Nebula award-nominated novella Identity Theft

The name's Lomax-Alex Lomax. I'm the one and only private eye working the mean streets of New Klondike, the Martian frontier town that sprang up forty years ago after Simon Weingarten and Denny O'Reilly discovered fossils on the Red Planet. Back on Earth, where anything can be synthesized, the remains of alien life are the most valuable of all collectibles, so shiploads of desperate treasure hunters stampeded here in the Great Martian Fossil Rush.

I'm trying to make an honest buck in a dishonest world, tracking down killers and kidnappers among the failed prospectors, the corrupt cops, and a growing population of transfers-lucky stiffs who, after striking paleontological gold, upload their minds into immortal android bodies. But when I uncover clues to solving the decades-old murders of Weingarten and O'Reilly, along with a journal that may lead to their legendary mother lode of Martian fossils, God only knows what I'll dig up . . .

©2013 Robert J. Sawyer (P)2024 Tantor Adventure Hard Science Fiction Modern Detectives Mystery Private Investigators Science Fiction Solar System Mars Natural History Fiction Palaeontology
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This is the ninth Robert J. Sawyer book I’ve read, and I already can’t wait for the tenth. Like in his other novels, Mr. Sawyer drops you straight into the story and reveals important details as things unfold. The whole 1970s private-eye vibe on Mars was hugely entertaining. The characters are engaging, and the mystery keeps you guessing until the very end. I loved this book.

A Noir Mystery on the Red Planet

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