The Halter

The Halter

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Combining The Inventive Worldbuilding Of Philip K. Dick And The Elegiac Longing Of Raymond ChandlerS The Long Goodbye And For Fans Of Ready Player One And Rabbits, The Halter By Darby Mcdevitt (Lead Writer For AssassinS Creed 4: Black Flag) Is A Debut SciFi Novel That Fuses CyberNoir, Psychological Suspense, And HighConcept Speculation In A Breakneck Search For Truth Inside A Utopian Metaverse On The Verge Of Collapsein A World Where Virtual Addiction Kills, Kennedy Stark Is Paid To Pull The Plug. A Professional HalterPart Detective, Part CounselorHe Trawls The WorldS Darkest SurrogateReality Feeds In Search Of The Lost. When He IsnT Working, HeS Dreaming Of A OneWay Ticket To Mars, Where A New Colony Has Been Established As A Hopeful Alternative To An Earth In The Early Stages Of Climate Collapse.One Evening, After A Botched Rescue Attempt, A Mysterious Client Offers Kennedy A Tantalizing New Case: Brilliant Software Engineer Delia Walsh, Who Kennedy Fell In Love With Years Ago, Has Disappeared Inside A Surrogate Reality Project Called The Forum. Entering Under An Assumed Identity, Kennedy Finds A Simulation Unlike Any Other. The Forum Bills Itself As A Tool For CuttingEdge Scientific Research And Radical Philosophical Investigations, But The Signs Of Its Corruption Are Everywhere. As Kennedy Investigates, He Learns Delia Had Been Working On A New Simulation That Could Upend The ForumS Primary Purpose, And That Even In This Prurient Playground For The Super Wealthy, The Dangers Are Very Real.Brimming With Black Humor, Hardboiled Attitude, And A Cast Of Endearing Misfits Lost In Brittle Fantasies, The Halter Introduces A Charismatic Detective And Heralds A Unique And Assured New Voice In SciFi Crime.

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