Into Twilight
by P. R. Adams
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Pub Date Sep 10 2017 | Archive Date Oct 14 2018
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Description
Korea, 22nd Century. Surrender isn’t in Stefan Mendoza’s DNA. So when a traitor betrays his black-ops team, he alone pushes through the torture and escapes with revenge burning in his mind. On the verge of a systems failure, he taps into his underground network for a set of cybernetic limbs. But his high-tech recovery comes at a heavy price—an assassination hit on a rising political star.
Filled with resentment for the cutthroat world of contract killers, he uses the hit job as a cover to track down the traitor. When he discovers he’s competing with other assassins for the same political target, he starts to piece together a sinister conspiracy that could lead him straight to the shadowy figure behind his betrayal.
Trapped within a hotbed of corruption, can Mendoza exact his revenge and win his freedom or will he spiral deeper into the twisted game of brokered death?
Into Twilight is the first book in The Stefan Mendoza Trilogy of high-octane cyberpunk techno-thrillers. If you like street-smart soldiers, complex conspiracies, and immersive sci-fi settings, then you'll love P.R. Adams's noir-style page-turner.
Advance Praise
The first chapter of Into Twilight grabs you by the throat and accelerates up to mach speeds. If that first part doesn't grab you, nothing will. For fans of Cyberpunk, books like Altered Carbon and Neuromancer or films like Ghost in the Shell or The Matrix, you just found your next hook. This book deals with a contractor for "The Agency" who understands that he is expendable. Despite that, some things cross a line and he finds himself delving into layers beyond his reach and into conspiracies he didn't fully expect. Another aspect that I love about this book is that it creates a real sense of technology for the timeframe involved. It fits perfectly into a world we might expect or possibly avoid. I've been impressed by the writer's work in other series and this one feels like the cherry on top.
Featured Reviews
Stefan Mendoza was an Agency assassin, until they left him for dead. A foreign government captured him and finally let him go after torturing him. He was rebuilt, given new eyes, legs and arms. Now he's hired by an unknown group and is trying to discover who has hired him and why. Adams writes a fast paced book. Looking forward to second in the trilogy.
This was great! I got really into this and thoroughly enjoyed the plot, the characters, the world building- it was all highly enjoyable.
Government assassin Stefan is betrayed by his own, and after the fallout, gets a new team, a new contract, and a new outlook. Fast paced and action packed, full of cybernetic implants, hackers and VR, car chases and shady organisations, I could completely see this one making a brilliant TV series at some point.
I found it exciting and enjoyable, and especially liked the team meetings where the diverse group all understood their tasks, but nobody liked them...
I thought it was really well written and believable, although strange, everyone seemed real to me and unique - I've read a few too many books recently where the characters almost blend into each other. I enjoyed this more than recent reads by some of the bigger more famous authors I've read recently, and will definitely be heading straight off to buy the next in the series (although it ends perfectly fine as a standalone, not one of those annoying half-books where you have to read more to find out the rest of the story).
I'm grateful to Netgalley for the opportunity to read and review this book in return for an honest and unbiased review.
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