6/10/2023 0 Comments The Electric Church by Jeff Somers![]() ![]() The first is the SSF - the more fancifully armed, less open to bribery and both more vicious and successful half of the police force. However there are two major enemies he faces in this world. Why, he's reached the ripe old age of 27, without dying, without using medical rebuilding - legal or otherwise, but with little bank balance, little future, and little way out of the ultra-violent, potty-mouthed milieu he finds himself in. This isn't helped by him being a gun-for-hire, paid by anyone with yen (the global currency) handy and a target somewhere in the offing for an offing, but at least he knows his trade and all the tricks of survival in the ruinous mega-city centred on New York that is the eastern US seaboard. In the future, post-apocalyptic world Avery Cates is living in, everyone is his enemy. The originality is hampered by a narrator I would wish to change, and a lack of surprise, and change in pace. ![]() Summary: A gun-for-hire is charged with helping destroy a massive cult of cyborg-style immortal religious believers. ![]()
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