This science fiction police procedural pairs an idealistic rookie with
an officer who uses cybernetic implants to process forensics; in solving
a mass murder, they will uncover a vast conspiracy. Eric Matheson, an
idealistic rookie cop trying to break from his powerful family, is
plunged into the investigation of a brutal crime in his first weeks on
the job in Angra Dastrelas, the corrupt capital city of the
corporate-owned planet Gattis. A newcomer to the planet, Matheson is
unaware of the danger he's courting when he's promoted in the field to
assist the controversial Chief Investigating Forensic Officer, Inspector
J. P. Dillal, the planet's first cybernetically enhanced investigator.
Coming from a despised ethnic underclass, the brilliant and secretive
Dillal seems determined to unravel the crime regardless of the
consequences. The deeper they dig, the more dangerous the investigation
becomes. But in a system where the cops enforce corporate will, instead
of the law, the solution could expose Gattis's most shocking secrets and
cost thousands of lives--including Matheson's and Dillal's.