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Thin Air

From the author of Netflix's Altered Carbon

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Thin Air

By: Richard Morgan
Narrated by: Colin Mace
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 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
(p) Orion Publishing Group 2018©2017 Richard Morgan Cyberpunk Dystopian Military Science Fiction Fiction Mars

Critic Reviews

Super fluid action thriller... amped-up Chandler in space.
A hugely entertaining and smartly written book.
A sheer pyrotechnic triumph: wonderfully imaginative, written in overdrive, mercilessly violent... A twisted conundrum and a hell of a ride!
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An enjoyable journey through a corrupt minefield of double and triple crosses. Give this one a go. It’s worth the sex scenes for the climax.

Let’s Go Back to the Future

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Richard Morgan is one of the best dark sci-fi writers. He is a descriptive wordsmith of the highest order, while still playing out guttural and gritty characters, visceral fight and sex scenes and always twisted, winding plots of future corps, mobsters and super soldiers.

The narrators voice is gritty which matches the prose. Well read, with slight accents for each character voice, lending realism without breaking stride.

Dark Visceral Thriller - good narrator

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So good to read a great story with all that stuff. Morgan does it so very well.

Wonderful. Sex. Violence. Love and betrayal

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Love the medical and weapons tech. The violence is fun... die or recover completely! The sex is graphic and the characters work little to get it (like 80s adolescents). There are friends and some character development. The politics is believable and reminiscent of current US and Australian leadership psychopathology. I look forward to more . Like his characters Richard Morgan goes from strength to strength.

Excellent millieu. Gritty characters.

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As soon as you start listening, it's like "The Big Easy" all over again, except it's the future, it 's Mars, and it's bio-tech. Loved it, gritty, nasty, and great to listen to. Twists & turns everywhere!

Raymond Chandler on Mars!!

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