The Doomsday Brunette

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Summary: Exciting, and well done.....................
Review: Bought this book by reading the reviews and did not regret it. Quick and easy pulp fiction read with excellent characters and plot. I read this book in two fun-filled days. Takes place in the future 2058, the story involves four identical sisters and our P.I. is called out to One's house because someone or thing has murdered her sister called Foura. I will not go into any more detail,just telling all you guys who Laurell's works and Jim Butcher's books to try this book. I really enjoyed it. Now John hurry up and finish up The Radioactive Redhead. YOU HAVE A NEW FAN.................

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Summary: Hilarious!
Review: I loved this book...great character development (including the computers), snappy dialogue and all sorts of high-tech goodies. Great fun!

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Summary: not your average SF& Hard Boiled Detective novel
Review: I was first caught by the title, then by the wonderful cover art which does a fine job of capturing the quintessential look of a period Pulp Fiction magazine. The content is no less entertaining. Not many authors have been able to carry off a classic Hard Boiled Detective novel (or even less a Detective/Mystery novel) in the Science Fiction vein. It was an easy and entertaining read. I occasionally thumbed a few pages back to re-read a particulary amusing or well-written scene.....My only regret is that this was the *first* one I read and that I haven't read the first book. Even though I'm reading out of order hasn't diminished my enjoyment a Nano!

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Summary: Very good SF/detective story
Review: Set in the middle of the 21st century, the Thompson Quads (short for quadruplets) are genetically engineered to be stronger, smarter, more beautiful and alluring, more everything than the average person. Ona, Twoa, Threa and Foraa (seriously) are supposed to be the pinnacle of humanity, but their personalities never caught up with their bodies. During a private dinner at Ona's private compound, attempting to patch up disagreements between them (which have grown to the size of the Grand Canyon), Foraa falls to the floor, dead, and apparently poisoned.

Enter Zachary Nixon Johnson, the world's last freelance private investigator. The wine Foraa was drinking when she collapsed tests negative for all known poisons. An autopsy on Foraa is impossible because her skin, like that of her sisters, is impregnable to outside objects, including scalpels, saws, and even lasers used on asteroids. Johnson, who is assisted in his investigation by HARV, the world's most sophisticated supercomputer hardwired into his brain, doesn't lack for suspects.

Perhaps the killer was aiming for Ona (she inherited all of Daddy's money when he died, and has become an arrogant, overbearing you-know-what) and miscalculated. After much investigation, and narrowly surviving an attack by a cybernetic suit of armor, Johnson feels the case is solved. During what is supposed to be the climatic scene, where the hardboiled PI calls together all the suspects in order to reveal the murderer, Johnson gets a call from the morgue. Foraa has woken up, gotten off the autopsy table and left. The final battle of the book takes place in a New Vegas casino that happens to be built on top of a real doomsday device, built by Daddy before he died.

Fans of hardboiled detective novels will enjoy this story; science fiction fans will also enjoy it. The authors do a fine job throughout and this is well worth reading.


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Summary: Excellent follow-up! You should buy this book!!
Review: The 2nd book of the trilogy, The Doomsday Brunette, picks up shortly after the events of The Plutonium Blonde.

She's super-smart, super-super-model gorgeous, nigh-invulnerable and a light shade of purple. Yup, purple. And she's 1/4 of the Thompson Quadruplet's. She is Ona Thompson and one of her sister's is dead.

Zach Johnson, Private Eye extraordinaire (that's because he's the ONLY PI left on Earth), is hired by the richest being on the planet, Ona Thompson, to find out who killed her sister.

Ah mayhem...murderous granny's, homicidal 13th Century Medieval suits of armor, golf ball-sized laser-firing security bots, zombie Vegas tourists (what! They're not REAL?!), and pheromones...sweet, sweet pheromones...What?! Where was I? Oh, yeah...one liner's, intrigue, acrophobia and more...all the ingredients for a fun-filled, fast-paced romp in the not-too-distant future of mid-21st Century.

Can't wait for the 3rd book, The Radioactive Redhead.

Don't make Zach's adventures a trilogy. We want more!!!



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Summary: First class entertainment
Review: The only freelance private detective in the year 2058 has HARV, the world's most advanced artificial intelligent super computer hardwired into his brain. At times Zachary Nixon Johnson does not know when his thoughts end and HARV's begins but he knows it is the computer in his head that is waking him up to take a call from a client at three o'clock in the morning.

Ona Thompson of the famous Thompson quads, genetically engineered to be powerful, invulnerable and unbelievably intelligent, wants Zach at her estates post haste because she has a problem and nobody says no to Ona. When he (and HARV) arrives, they find three live Thompson Quads and one dead one. Since it is widely known that the sisters all hate each other, Zach is hired to find the killer so Ona can be exonerated in the court of public opinion and with the police department of New San Francisco.

John Zakour & Laurence Ganem are an excellent writing team who work in the comic book industry that manifests itself in the storyline reading at times like a graphic novel without the pictures. Between the interactions of HARV and Zach and the Thomson quads, one of who is a super crime fighter and one is believes she is a fairy godmother; readers will find themselves in stitches of laughter. This work of speculative fiction is first class entertainment.

Harriet Klausner

Rating:
Summary: First class entertainment
Review: The only freelance private detective in the year 2058 has HARV, the world's most advanced artificial intelligent super computer hardwired into his brain. At times Zachary Nixon Johnson does not know when his thoughts end and HARV's begins but he knows it is the computer in his head that is waking him up to take a call from a client at three o'clock in the morning.

Ona Thompson of the famous Thompson quads, genetically engineered to be powerful, invulnerable and unbelievably intelligent, wants Zach at her estates post haste because she has a problem and nobody says no to Ona. When he (and HARV) arrives, they find three live Thompson Quads and one dead one. Since it is widely known that the sisters all hate each other, Zach is hired to find the killer so Ona can be exonerated in the court of public opinion and with the police department of New San Francisco.

John Zakour & Laurence Ganem are an excellent writing team who work in the comic book industry that manifests itself in the storyline reading at times like a graphic novel without the pictures. Between the interactions of HARV and Zach and the Thomson quads, one of who is a super crime fighter and one is believes she is a fairy godmother; readers will find themselves in stitches of laughter. This work of speculative fiction is first class entertainment.

Harriet Klausner