He does the government’s dirty work. When he’s double-crossed by one of his own, he’ll stop at nothing to take out the trash.Korea, 22nd Century. Surrender isn’t in Stefan Mendoza’s DNA. So when a traitor betrays his black-ops team, he alone pushes through the torture and escapes with revenge burning in his mind. On the verge of a systems failure, he taps into his underground network for a set of … his underground network for a set of cybernetic limbs. But his high-tech recovery comes at a heavy price— an assassination hit on a rising political star.
Filled with resentment for the cutthroat world of contract killers, he uses the hit job as a cover to track down the traitor. When he discovers he’s competing with other assassins for the same political target, he starts to piece together a sinister conspiracy that could lead him straight to the shadowy figure behind his betrayal.
Trapped within a hotbed of corruption, can Mendoza exact his revenge and win his freedom or will he spiral deeper into the twisted game of brokered death?
Into Twilight is the first book in The Stefan Mendoza Trilogy of high-octane cyberpunk techno-thrillers. If you like street-smart soldiers, complex conspiracies, and immersive sci-fi settings, then you’ll love P.R. Adams noir-style page-turner.
Buy Into Twilight to take a walk on the dark side of justice today!
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Nice prediction of socio-techno evolution in daily life. Dark view of political evolution and power of corporations. An exciting read.
What a epic read, right from the begining i had no idea who where the bad guys and what the heck was happening but its so hard paced I kept going putting the pieces together as did the leading character working out who was double crossing who. Theres a nice play on using tech body enhancements and tech tools to crack open the trail of rogue agency plans. Some gritty torture involved so not for the light hearted and the ending very good leaving a future follow up on the cards. The pace is hectic so be ready.
Will be looking to find the remaining books in this series. Believable characters and plot line. Lots of action.
Great concepts, non stop plot twists, complex characters which were well developed. I loved it.
This is a hot read with so many twists and turns you read all the way to the end before figuring out who the real villain is.
Cheers
Mario
Kept me interested with a lot of action
Spoilers: PR Adams’ Into Twilight is good. It’s one of the rare few that made me impulse-buy the sequel without checking blurbs or reviews.
The story follows Stefan Mendoza, a sometime soldier, full-time gangster assassin. The opening sequence sees Mendoza sanded down by road rash in a brutal combat scene. What follows is a redemption story, embedded within an overt plot of “assassinating a US Sentator.” It reads like a spy thriller, with intricate shadow-behind-the-throne subplots. What’s more interesting is it’s set within a cyberpunk enclosure; most of today’s cyberpunk is rank-and-file filler, without the genius that went into genre leaders like Neuromancer or Altered Carbon. Into Twilight has the necessary depth to shine; this isn’t indie dumpster-diving, but well-tailored storytelling.
The story reminded me of Lee Child’s novels. Mendoza is a futuristic Jack Reacher, getting the job done despite the corrupt power arrayed against him. He’s a once-was-bad man, trying for a sliver of righteousness as both his own clock and America’s wind into gloom. He’s got skills to take down the bad people, and fumbles enough with the good so you know he hasn’t mastered being a saint. Mendoza knows the inner clockwork of how humans function, and uses this to wrangle his team toward their assassination target. He’s got an old partner in Danny, a confusion of emotions in dead friend’s daughter Ichi, and like most of us would, struggles to communicate with Chan, the hacker of the group.
I mentioned it was cyberpunk, but it feels more like a cold war novel. The city is cold, the streets icy. Shadowy deals are done off the grid. An overworked FBI know all, but take little action. Former allies turn against Mendoza and his team, coring their accounts, and leaving them with nowhere to run. The tech of the world is a backdrop against which the story unfolds; take away the cyberpunk noir, and you’d still have an excellent spy novel.
Action, politics, sex, power, money, and greed – it’s all here. I’ll admit as the story unfolded, and Mendoza’s usually-flexible moral compass rails against his mission, I wondered how this would wrap up. Would Adams give us a story where the hero fails? Can success be stolen from a pile of ashes? I don’t want to give anything away, but the end of this book was satisfying.
Get it today – you won’t be disappointed.
A good read
From the dynamite thrilling opening to the kick ass end, this book was terrific. Once again, PR Adams shows his skill at great characterization, dialog, plot, and world crafting. Stefan Mendoza and his crew are assassins and mercs, not your typical protagonists, but Adams makes them live and breath and you can easily relate to them and the conspiracy they find themselves in.
After his last mission goes disastrously wrong due to a betrayal, Mendoza is forced to take a job he’d rather not do, but his employment options are limited, and he owes the people that rescued him. This job seems easy, but numerous complications arise with political and corporate forces arrayed against him and his newly formed team.
This book is a fast paced and action packed sci-fi techno thriller, with a good measure of cyberpunk added in. It’s great stand alone book, but it’s also set in the same world as Adam’s “Rimes” and “Elite Response Force” novels.