The first novel written for Twitter is finally available in print (expanded and revised).
When a galactically inept inspector tackles the world’s most illusive AI, prepare for apocalypse. Determined to find missing programmer Alyson Sweetcheeks, Detective Bob unleashes a war between a tech conglomerate, a covert cyber gang, the mob, and a malevolent time-travelling intelligence bent on world domination. Will Bob beat astronomical odds to save the girl, the world, and his chances for promotion?
Зміст
Introduction by April Greyi
Chapter One3
In which a girl vanishes and the worst detective in the world is tasked to chase her.
Chapter Two25
The mob kidnaps Bob and encourages him to drop the Alyson investigation. For that matter, everyone insists that Bob drop the investiga-tion.
Chapter Three41
A visit to Tyny Dyne to search Alyson’s office for clues turn up nothing but does spark a fierce debate between conflicting point-of-view narrators.
Chapter Four59
Members of an online gang warn Bob that finding Alyson could trigger a nanobot apocalypse.
Chapter Five73
Bob searches Alyson’s apartment and meets the world’s nosiest neighbor.
Chapter Six83
Bob wakes up to a world that has erased Alyson from its records, and is abducted by aliens when he tries to find out why.
Chapter Seven101
Alyson finally appears and reveals that Bob was not only barking up the wrong tree, there was no tree to bark up. Or, how do you spell ‘patsy’?
Hardcover Only
The Original Doublemint Gumshoe Tweets121
Detective Bob Tweets204
Tweet Series: Halloween and the Law206
Original Short Story:
A Rose is a Rose is a Clue Unless It’s a Red Herring208
Про автора
Phillip T. Stephens attended the Michigan State writers’ workshop. He taught writing and design at Austin Community College for 20 years. Phillip’s writing and art appear in anthologies, literary and peer-reviewed academic journals. His novels Doublemint Gumshoe and Seeing Jesus won multiple awards for independent fiction. He and Carol live in Oak Hill, Texas where they built a habitat in the shade of their oaks to house foster cats for austinsiameserescue.org. They found new homes for more than three hundred abandoned pets. You can find more of his work at https://medium.com/wind-eggs.