The Escher Man - Review
Link to the author's (T. R. Napper) personal website
Genre: Sci-Fi
Publication Type: Book
Tags:
- Average Age of Main Characters (35)
- Length (4 / 10)
Link to Goodreads
Blurb: Your name is Endel ‘Endgame’ Ebbinghaus. It is Saturday, 3 September, 2101. You’re head of security for Mister Long, boss of the Macau Syndicate, a drug cartel. Your memories are being wiped and re-written. You keep this log because you’re hard pressed to remember what day it is. But today is a special day, mate. This is your last day on the job.”
‘Endgame’ is a violent man, the perfect enforcer. But Endel is also a father and husband, haunted by the memories of his estranged family, and the life they once had.
Endel wants them back, and he wants out. But life in the syndicate isn’t one you can simply leave.
Endgame is a violent man. Or is he? In a world where memory manipulation is the weapon of choice for the powerful, Endel can’t tell friends and enemies apart anymore, can’t be sure if he’s a person or a tool.
Trapped in a taut, twisting nightmare, Endel must find a way to escape the labyrinth they’ve made of his mind, and take revenge.
Review: I do love myself some cyberpunk and I love it even more when written from an Australian perspective. The world is so vibrant despite the horrendous amount collective bad, and that is with so much of the bad literally focused on erasing what makes the world itself vibrant. I was hooked after the first few sentences. The dialogue, as in all books by T. R. Napper, is authentic and engaging, and I enjoy how it flows in between action scenes and descriptions of a futuristic dystopia. I also appreciated Endel as a main character. About the only thing we have in common is being Australians that now live in non-English speaking countries, but apparently that's enough to more easily incite some deeper level of attachment (or I'm trying to find a link when the reality is the writing was just that superb). This is a strong recommend if you find the premise of the blurb of interesting!