Blue Limbo - Hardcover

Green, Terence M.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0312862822 ISBN 13: 9780312862824

Publisher: Tor Books, 1997

Synopsis

Mitch Helwig is a good cop in a future Toronto that is spiraling toward anarchy. Drugs rule the streets, and criminals have the police outgunned. So when Mitch is fired from the force by a corrupt superior, he cashes in his savings, buys some high-tech weapons and equipment, and begins a half-mad crusade to clean up Toronto single-handedly. But Mitch is human: when his wife leaves him and takes his daughter, his despair gives his enemies an opportunity to exact their own revenge.
Blue Limbo is a tale of vengeance and heroism, a novel of action and character in a city in the shadow of crime and official corruption, where one man throws off the numbing weight of personal tragedy to fight back.

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Although Green's last novel, Shadow of Ashland (Forecasts, Jan. 8), was a poignant parable with a light fantasy gloss, his latest is anything but. Instead, it's a high-tech action cop thriller, albeit one sensitively drawn. In early-21st century Toronto, police officer Mitch Helwig survives?in rapid succession?the murder of his partner, an attempt on his own life, another attempt on the life of his boss, Captain Karoulis, and suspension from the force. To deal with the parties responsible, Helwig turns rogue cop, setting off a sequence of explosively paced confrontations. There's not much that makes this novel SF except for the futuristic hardware and Blue Limbo itself, a technique for partially reviving the dead that is used on Karoulis to provide Helwig with vital evidence. Both Helwig and Karoulis suffer some standard cop problems, but Green handles all his characters with great compassion. Then there is Mitch's octogenarian father, Paul, a man of wit, courage and resources unsuspected by even his son, let alone the villains. Green's newest may be short on originality, but it's definitely long on readability.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.

In early 21st-century Toronto, ex-policeman Mitch Helwig tracks down his partner's killer. Except for some high-tech weapons and the medical breakthrough of reviving dead people for a maximum of four weeks (known as the "blue limbo"), very little of this book could be considered science fiction. It's more like one step into the future for Joseph Wambaugh. This crime thriller will appeal to fans of Sylvester Stallone's futuristic movies. Recommended for crime fiction and sf collections.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Edition details

• Publisher: Tor Books
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0312862822
• ISBN 13: 9780312862824
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 253