Title: Quantum Marlowe by Glenn Lazar Roberts
Publisher: TWB Press
Genre: Crime Noir, Sci-Fi, Heroic Fantasy,
440 pages +
ISBN: 9781944045500
Publish: TBA January 2019
Book Blurb:
Pete Marlowe, a tiny but tough private detective, is having a bad day. Two mad scientists abducted him, lopped off his little finger, and installed a red button that enables him to walk through walls. Targeting Pete because his con-artist uncle secretly unloaded the Blarney Stone on the Pope, the kidnappers send him in to get the Stone back, snaring Pete in a plan that involves the Vatican, Mexican drug cartels, and a World War II Nazi project called The Bell. Can “Pinky’s” street smarts survive the scientists’ manipulations? Or is he destined to be marooned in a parallel universe? Quantum mechanics meets hard-boiled detective in this classic film noir take-off of Dashiell Hammett’s famous Sam Spade and Raymond Chandler’s Philip Marlowe. “When Pinky gives them the finger, they stay fingered. I’m just that kinda guy.” Continue reading “Quantum Marlowe by Glenn Lazar Roberts – a #BookReview”