The Limbo Bar and Grill: A Cyber Fantasy (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798618203876)

Detective Tabitha Marlowe has spent the last ten years as a cop in the giant megalopolis known to its inhabitants only as the City. She has worked her way from beat cop to one of the members of the Elite Major Crimes Unit, and she thinks she has seen it all. Throughout her career, her driving passion has been to find the Lost. Those citizens of the City who somehow fall between the cracks. It is the year 2330, and with the technology available, people should not just disappear. Most citizens have implanted telecommunication cyberware, known as "implants," which should allow for instantaneous tracking. Yet some citizens just seem to vanish without a trace. Marlowe's current case is finding The Media Mogul Victor Chamber's daughter, the only heir to the Media Moguls empire, but Tabitha has hit a dead end. In desperation, Marlowe reaches out to one of her Confidential Informants with the "street name" Eight Ball, who tells her that if she is willing to go beyond the walls of Midtown and brave, the violent and lawless Ganger Land. Tabitha will find a watering hole called the Limbo Bar and Grill, in an area, the residents call Sanctuary. Within the confines of the bar, there is a guy known only as Gabriel. Rumor says that Gabriel haunts the bar and that he can find those that have disappeared without a trace.Detective Marlowe, who knows the City, as well as anyone, finds Gabriel, and he takes her on a journey to places that she never dreamt existed. The race to find the Heiress before it is too late forces, Marlowe, to confront an underbelly of the City that she never believed was possible. Traveling with the Mysterious Gabriel and a reformed Druggie known as Suicide Suzi, to a location that the inhabitants call Off-Grid. There Marlowe must confront childhood nightmares and legends from the dim past in an attempt to save the lost young girl with only her companions, her wits, her service weapon, and perhaps something more....

Author: Steven Knotts
ISBN-13: 9798618203876
Publisher: Independently Published
Language: English
Published: 02/26/2020
Pages: 220
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.72lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.50d