This Side of Judgment - Softcover

Dunn, J. R.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0451454863 ISBN 13: 9780451454867

Publisher: Roc, 1995

Synopsis

Investigating two sloppy crimes, a murder and a bank computer intrusion, Washington COSSF agent Ross Bohlen finds a connection between the seemingly unrelated incidents in a cybernetically enhanced person who is presumed dead. Reprint.

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About the Author

J.R. Dunn is a writer whose work has appeared in magazines, including Analog, Asimov's, Omni, Century, and Amazing. Most of his stories have been cited on best-of-year lists with many selected for anthologies. Dunn also works as an editor.Dunn lives in New Jersey, a small, barbarous region between New York and Pennsylvania.

From Publishers Weekly

Known for his short stories in SF magazines, Dunn makes a solid book-length debut with this near-future adventure-thriller that combines elements of both The Fugitive and Frankenstein. In the 21st century, the U.S. has been fractured by invasion from the south and by foreign and domestic terrorism. The Latino troops have been routed and much of the Southwest has been depopulated, with thousands of survivors having made their way to the small, snowbound town of Ironwood, Montana. When a savagely mutilated corpse is discovered in Ironwood, the question that haunts local police and vigilante groups is whether the town's refugee camps shelter even more frightening "invaders": remnants of a group of cybernetically enhanced supermen from California, referred to as "Chipheads." Enter Ross Bohlen, a gifted but short-fused antiterrorist operative from Washington, D.C., who, in following his instincts in tracking down Chipheads, ends up at odds with his corrupt, bureaucracy-bound bosses and the shell-shocked local sheriff. Complicating the dramatic mix is the presence of another group of Chipheads who want to share their enhanced powers with humanity even while they're fighting off the pychosis-inducing effects of cerebral chip implantation. The satisfying cat-and-mouse development ends with a scene right out of the David Koresh files, proving that you don't have to be enhanced to be crazy. Though curiously old-fashioned in style and story line for a tale whose hard-science plot element is straight out of cyberpunk, Dunn's first novel proves a page-turner.
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Edition details

• Publisher: Roc
• Publication date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0451454863
• ISBN 13: 9780451454867
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 368