Carlos Cajón, Syria, 2075

STRANGE ACTORS is a cyberpunk mystery written by a retired naval intelligence officer and veteran SF novelist, Tom Cool. Carlos Cajon, a retired Marine, investigates the assassination of his boss, William Gates IV. "Strange Actors" are humans who have been kidnapped and outfitted with neural sleeves that turn them into marionettes, remotely driven by their masters. Once Carlos discovers that the assassin was a strange actor, he plunges deeper into a worldwide search for the true enemy, which may include runaway AIs ("sophonts"), transgenic post-Humans and security forces and terrorists from Korea to the Kingdom of Judah.

This is a taut, complex thriller with six intersecting subplots. At 42,000 words, STRANGE ACTORS is as taut a SF thriller as the author of INFECTRESS and SECRET REALMS can make it.

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