Repo Men
Set just 20 years in the future, this eerie sci-fi thriller takes you into the lives of two disturbed war veterans who return from Africa, hoping to resume their lives. At best, they achieve their goal only partially, gaining jobs as "bio-repo men," agents who hunt down and repossess artificial...
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Set just 20 years in the future, this eerie sci-fi thriller takes you into the lives of two disturbed war veterans who return from Africa, hoping to resume their lives. At best, they achieve their goal only partially, gaining jobs as "bio-repo men," agents who hunt down and repossess artificial body organs when their owners fall behind on payment. Soon their new livelihood places them both in a painful paradox: One of them has fallen hopelessly in arrears on his own artificial heart, and the other, his best friend, receives the assignment to confiscate his buddy's ticker.
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Format: ebook
ISBN:
9780061938665 (0061938661)
Publish date: March 9th 2010
Publisher: HarperCollins
Pages no: 336
Edition language: English
I remember adding Eric Garcia to my authorial wishlist. Karin Slaughter was at the Melbourne Writers Festival, and talked of how she was more nitpicky of the locations in the Vincent Rubio series, when really she should've questioned the realism of a dinosaur going undercover in contemporary America...
I remember adding Eric Garcia to my authorial wishlist. Karin Slaughter was at the Melbourne Writers Festival, and talked of how she was more nitpicky of the locations in the Vincent Rubio series, when really she should've questioned the realism of a dinosaur going undercover in contemporary America...
This book is a must-read for various reasons. For one, if you like the paranoia element in works by Philip K. Dick and Alfred Bester, then you will probably like this one as well. I would say it falls somewhat in the dystopian genre (the protagonist narrating in first person can be seen as a bit sim...
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