A virtuosic mashup of Philip K. Dick and Raymond Chandler by way of
Marvel--the story of a detective investigating the murder of a Titan,
one of society's most powerful, medically-enhanced elites
"Cross-genre brilliance from the superbly talented Nick Harkaway."
--William Gibson, New York Times best-selling author of Agency
Cal Sounder is a detective working for the police on certain very
sensitive cases. So when he's called in to investigate a homicide at a
local apartment, he's surprised by the routineness of it all. But when
he arrives on scene, Cal soon learns that the victim--Roddy Tebbit, an
otherwise milquetoast techie--is well over seven feet tall. And although
he doesn't look a day over thirty, he is ninety-one years old. Tebbit is
a Titan--one of this dystopian, near-future society's genetically
altered elites. And this case is definitely Cal's thing.
There are only a few thousand Titans worldwide, thanks to Stefan
Tonfamecasca's discovery of the controversial T7 genetic therapy, which
elevated his family to godlike status. T7 turns average humans into
near-immortal distortions of themselves--with immense physical
proportions to match their ostentatious, unreachable lifestyles. A dead
Titan is big news . . . a murdered Titan is unimaginable. But these
modified magnates are Cal's specialty. In fact, his own ex-girlfriend,
Athena, is a Titan. And not just any--she is Stefan's daughter, heir to
the massive Tonfamecasca empire.
As the murder investigation intensifies, Cal begins to unravel the
complicated threads of what should have been a straightforward case, and
it becomes clear he's on the trail of a crime whose roots run deep into
the dark heart of the world.
