If that which does not kill you makes you stronger, then Inspector Thomas Sullivan is one tough dude. As life continues to kick Sullivan around the galaxy, the Alliance finds one criminal mess after another for the Inspector to clean up.Cynical, bitter, and under no illusions about what life has in store for him, Sullivan finds the strength to fight corruption, bring justice to those who seldom … who seldom experience it, and more often than not, kill the bad guy.
If Sullivan’s life wasn’t troubled enough, his path crosses that of a strange young woman and her sisters who are all too familiar with tragedy. 500 years in the future, hardboiled crime still reaches out and hurts the innocent.
Check out this crime noir from the future, the second in the prequel series for Inspector Thomas Sullivan!
The hardboiled noir from the future prequel series includes:
The Fractured Man
What Doesn’t Kill
Dangerous Is The Game
more
Solving crimes in a “space ship” isn’t the easiest thing to do but Inspector Sullivan can manage quite nicely. Send him after a serial killer and things really heat up. A rather mechanical protagonist stars in this book of murders and mysteries. Unusual locations and scenes set the stage for an entertaining novel. Recommended.
What Doesn’t Kill – a review by Rosemary Kenny
*slight spoilers*
What a wonderful new case for the stalwart semi-cyborg Inspector Thomas,(‘Sully’ to his friends) Sullivan. What Doesn’t Kill could be said to be a tale of three parts, (in my humble opinion) all excellent and meshing seamlessly, yet nevertheless complexly different. The first part happens at the end of an earlier case.
After being re-assigned to Cigna III, Sully arrives by shuttle aboard the space cruiser Vaya Con Dios and settles in the passenger lounge to watch the shuttle’s departure – and its total destruction as it explodes minutes later! Instantly his former Space Marine and Intergalactic Alliance Police Force (IAPF), instincts kick in and Sully seals the area and begins the hunt for the killers of the passengers and crew, who included not only a trillionaire, but a senior member of the royal family of Pandora! Recovery of the debris and identification of the remains may be far from easy, but the truth is exponentially harder to accept.
Sully’s still getting over the death of his former love, Madison which makes him wary of feeling anything for another woman, so throws himself flat out into working through the seemingly impenetrable cloud of lies surrounding the events of the last few hours, with the help of his two deputies, .
The ‘second part’ of the novel is the backstory of the illegal clone Sarah and her cloned ‘sisters’ Ellie and Maria – each enhanced in different ways – who’ve stowed away on the Vaya Con Dios until it docked at Cigna III, before planning the next part of their journey to what they hope will be a new and safe future.
Although not directly involved in the first plot, but definitely a major part of the second, the siblings’ struggle for survival and how their different temperaments affect what comes next, is brilliantly entwined with earlier and later events, by the magnificent storyteller K.C Sivils.
Even stranger, a third ‘thread’ is introduced, whereby a serial killer is on the loose, killing women targets publicly, yet untraceably,supposedly to teach them and those watching the gruesome acts and self-aggrandising statements ‘the error of their ways’ and challenging the police – and Sully in particular – to catch him!
These various threads form a wonderful conclusion, (with only the very slightest of cliff-hangers).
I can’t wait for the next ‘episode’ as Sully goes undercover in his next case and I’m dying to know how Sully and Sarah meet and become lifelong colleagues in the intergalactic Alliance Police Force’s mission to bring peace to the galaxy, one planet at a time. I’m sure you’ll enjoy it too, as well as all K.C.Sivils’ excellent Inspector Thomas Sullivan novels. Don’t wait to grab them all and fill up your sci-fi noir mystery thriller bookshelves today – you’ll love it!
Who is Thomas Sullivan, and how did he get to where he is today? An explosion, a dead prince, a cover-up, and a set of triplets. What could be more intriguing?
Sivils’ prequel to the Inspector Thomas Sullivan Thriller series, What Doesn’t Kill shows us a bitter and drifting Sully. The universe is against him at every turn. He believes in swift justice and is incorruptible. Those traits don’t make him very popular with officials or criminals.
Being at the wrong place at the right time puts Sully in the middle of a crime as it happens. His training immediately kicks in, and he takes control of the scene. He is like a tenacious alligator that won’t let anything go. His one moment of hesitation will haunt him forever.
5 out of 5 stars.
Excellent,while being thoughtful of its main characters! A “noir” jewel.