Riese Callahan dies for a living. This next case might kill him.
Once a Public Security detective, Riese was fitted with an experimental cybernetic that let him interrogate the wired dead, but the program ended in disaster. Damaged and discarded, he now scrapes by in dronetown, selling the dead’s final moments.
With the shardspinner Mina as his partner and an unwanted AI riding in his head, Riese has carved out a precarious life in the twilight beneath the baffles. But when the son of his treasonous ex-partner brings him a corpse no one wants to investigate, Riese sees his first real chance at payback.
The case draws him into a conspiracy of cults, drone princes, and the ghosts of the fading Authority. Torn between duty, revenge, and what remains of his conscience, Riese will have to choose what he’s willing to lose. This city has already taken his family. This case may take everything else.
