Kaduna Memories by Jack McKinney
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Overview: This is a First Contact story set in the 21st century, and it’s extremely entertaining. The writing has a deft light touch, you care about the characters, the villain is suitably obnoxious (without being so totally revolting as to be implausible) and you never know where the plot’s going to go. Furthermore, it never bogs down. Desperate for money, Felix McTurk, a free-lance data detective in 21st century Manhattan, agrees to accept a mysterious commission from a stranger named Gitani, an assignment that leads to a confrontation with McTurk’s former firm, Offworld Lifting and Development (OLD).
Synopsis:
Earth is a mess. It’s overcrowded and overpolluted. The rich live in the upper stories of office buildings, flitting from rooftop to rooftop when they’re not vacationing in orbit, while the populace below gasps for air. Felix McTurk has been hired to find someone’s parents. Supposedly they died over a decade before, but his client has received word that they are still alive. And discovering the truth just might give Felix the chance to gain his revenge on the company that ruined him and left him in this toxic soup.
The president of OLD – Offworld Lifting and Development – is at first a nice guy who just wants his company to gain the alien technology that just dropped in his lap. But he quickly shows himself as a manipulative, megalomaniacal bastard. The security chief is the same way. And the alien is barely a character, and where he is he’s, well, alien.
The first fifty pages detail not just the discovery of the aliens marooned in Solar System, but several arguments over whether to go public and the beginnings of the web of lies that will eventually surround the entire issue.
The arguments OLD’s president uses to justify keeping this secret were not especially convincing.
After that, the story takes a definite turn for the better. It becomes a classic detective story where the initial case leads to something of major importance. It manages not to be trite and tired, however, in part thanks to how McTurk has not one but two clients, and one is mysterious all around – nobody, not even the reader, has a clue as to who this person is or what they are after. So there is still something left to figure out, and of course it does eventually tie back in with everything else eventually.
Genre: Sci-Fi (Space Opera)
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