It speaks to the writing style of Conners that the book reads easy and provides incredible detail. I generally feel that it limits the scope of the setting and characters. I'm not typically a fan of a first person narrative. As a benefit of the first person description, we see inside the mind of Tex, and Conners does a great job of leading us through the text along Aaron Conners' Tex Murphy follows in the tradition of Sam Spade and the Continental Op as a classic example of a hardboiled gumshoe. moreĪaron Conners' Tex Murphy follows in the tradition of Sam Spade and the Continental Op as a classic example of a hardboiled gumshoe. If anyone can recommend a good cyberpunk novel, comment below. dystopia-like city settings, Tokyo rain neon vibe (which you don't get much here), Gibson and PK Dick.Īnyway, the book has its moments, fairly exciting ending, but overall not much cop. different groups clashing over "augs" and mutants and normals etc, big corporations running the cities, high tech, implants etc. Seen this kind of thing a hundred times in cyberpunk type games, novels, movies. But the main story revolves around the mystery of a missing statue and Tex's involvement in it. Tex, our oddly celibate protagonist, drives a flying vehicle and there are terrorist activity and riots because of clashes between Mutants and Norms. It reads like a Maltese Falcon rip off and there is very little cyber or punk in it, just a mention that it's set in the future. But ended up reading this looking for something cyberpunk. Don't do novelizations and definitely not ones based on games.
But the main story revolves around the mystery of a missing stat Not a book I thought I would read.
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