"Plain waffles and a green kale shake."

In his all consuming search to find his long time missing girl friend, Cowan Soto leaves his job with One World to become a detective, hoping that way to be able to gain access to the arrest files. But less than two weeks into his raining, he and the veteran teaching him are sent to investigate the first mass killing committed in twelve years.
Massacres like this didn't happen any more. It is a near future time of cybernetics, with all but a few traditionalists fitted with a traceable PBA, personal brain assistant, which gave them access to a more comfortable world and alternate realities, dulling the unpleasant sides of life. But as the investigation proceeds, it becomes obvious to Cowan and his partner that this was far more than a mere shooting: something was seriously wrong.

With very little personal knowledge of cybernetics or altered, alternative consciousness possible nowadays, the super fast transition between states in this story a first confused me. Then the whole roller coaster ride caught me up in its surge and carried me through its fast changing perceptions to the final conclusion. Throughout, the narrator, Eduardo Ballerini, was.excellent, voice clear, well modulated and paced, fully immersed in the story line.

Some of the descriptions are vivid, colourful: and with the very fast paced and unusual story line, this Techno thriller would be perfect material for a future big screen film

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