Recovery Man: A Retrieval Artist Novel
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RT Book Reviews Reviewers Award Choice Nominee for Best Science Fiction Novel of the Year.
“Rusch continues her provocative interplanetary detective series with healthy doses of planet-hopping intrigue, heady legal dilemmas and well-drawn characters.”
Publishers Weekly
When she arrives home from school on Callisto, Talia Shindo finds two strange men in her house. They terrorize her, and kidnap her mother. The men leave Talia behind. She’s thirteen, brilliant, and determined to find her missing mother.
Retrieval Artist Miles Flint works a seemingly unrelated case, digging into files left him by his mentor. Only he finds a connection to the Shindo kidnapping, a connection that shatters everything he ever knew.
The two cases collide, changing Flint, changing Talia, and changing the universe around them—forever.
“This high-tech detective story, part of the Retrieval Artist series, has hard science fiction, a complex whodunit and a fascinating look at alien bureaucracy. All the elements for an entertaining story are here: well-drawn, believable characters with frailties and flaws, credible scientific theory, and authentic-feeling settings.”
RT Book Reviews
Kristine Kathryn Rusch
USA Today bestselling author Kristine Kathryn Rusch writes in almost every genre. Generally, she uses her real name (Rusch) for most of her writing. Under that name, she publishes bestselling science fiction and fantasy, award-winning mysteries, acclaimed mainstream fiction, controversial nonfiction, and the occasional romance. Her novels have made bestseller lists around the world and her short fiction has appeared in eighteen best of the year collections. She has won more than twenty-five awards for her fiction, including the Hugo, Le Prix Imaginales, the Asimov’s Readers Choice award, and the Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine Readers Choice Award. Publications from The Chicago Tribune to Booklist have included her Kris Nelscott mystery novels in their top-ten-best mystery novels of the year. The Nelscott books have received nominations for almost every award in the mystery field, including the best novel Edgar Award, and the Shamus Award. She writes goofy romance novels as award-winner Kristine Grayson, romantic suspense as Kristine Dexter, and futuristic sf as Kris DeLake. She also edits. Beginning with work at the innovative publishing company, Pulphouse, followed by her award-winning tenure at The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, she took fifteen years off before returning to editing with the original anthology series Fiction River, published by WMG Publishing. She acts as series editor with her husband, writer Dean Wesley Smith, and edits at least two anthologies in the series per year on her own. To keep up with everything she does, go to kriswrites.com and sign up for her newsletter. To track her many pen names and series, see their individual websites (krisnelscott.com, kristinegrayson.com, krisdelake.com, retrievalartist.com, divingintothewreck.com). She lives and occasionally sleeps in Oregon.
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Reviews for Recovery Man
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This was another good installment of the series. I didn't realize when I'd read the summary, I didn't realize that this was going to delve so deeply into Miles' personal life (okay, I didn't realize Rhonda and her daughter were connected to him at all). Once I got into the story and realized it, I really enjoyed it. Granted Miles doesn't actually get to Calisto until the last quarter and he never has a scene with Rhonda (boy was I pining for one after all the revelations) but the call back to their history was so well done that I can't really complain. Points also go to Aleyd possibly rivalling Wagner, Stuart & Xendor for most cravenly opportunistic and cynical employer. Unlike the Disty in the last book, I didn't feel I got to know the Geyonesse very well. Still, I liked the look in and could see their grievance where their progeny were concerned.
No Noelle here and yes, I missed her but again, there was so much else going on that I can't ultimately call that a flaw in the book. Definitely recommended and I'm already on to the next one. I will miss this series when I've finished it. - Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Easy to read.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This book really shakes up the series, going back to Miles's past and dealing with his ex wife and murdered child. I look forward to the changes this will make in his life.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Recovery Man is the sixth novel in Rusch’s science fiction mystery series following Retrieval Artist Miles Flint. The premise of the series is as follows: human governments have signed treaties with alien governments mandating that humans be tried under alien laws for crimes committed on alien planets. But some of the punishments or “crimes” are completely, well, alien to humans, so a burgeoning industry of Disappearance Services hides human offenders from alien justice systems. Miles Flint, a former police officer, is a Retrieval Artist, someone who works for the families of the Disappeared, who will try to contact them without blowing their aliases.While you could theoretically start with Recovery Man, I wouldn’t. It’s not the best book in the series, and the plotline is weaker than some of the others. Try the first book, The Disappeared.On a company colony on Callisto, Rhonda Shindo is kidnapped by a Recovery Man, leaving her thirteen year old daughter Talia on her own, along with a big revelation regarding her past. Meanwhile, Miles Flint is searching through the old files on his mentor Paloma’s computer when he stumbles onto information with a critical tie to his own past.Basically, Recovery Man is an exploration of Miles’s backstory. Yes, I know, I thought we would have a handle on everything after six books, but Recovery Man does mine new ground. Partly related to this, Noelle DeRicci, probably the second most significant character in the series, actually didn’t appear here. I missed her, but I don’t see how she would have fit in anyway.While it didn’t have any trouble getting me to keep turning the pages, Recovery Man did end up feeling a bit lacking. In retrospect, Miles didn’t actually do a whole lot in his sections. Same goes for Talia after the initial excitement of her mother’s kidnapping. Really, Rhonda’s desperate escape attempts were the majority of the action in the novel.There were also quirks of Rusch’s writing style that annoyed me at times. It seemed like she spent too much time stating the obvious, often for the purpose of dramatic ending lines to chapters. Are all of her books like this, or am I only just now noticing it?Regardless, I’m still willing to read more since I like the stories and characters. Unfortunately one of my favorite things about the series – the aliens – didn’t have a huge role in this installment, but I can hold out hopes for future books.Originally posted on The Illustrated Page.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Firstly - this is not a standalone book. If you read this without reading the predecessors, it won't make any sense. I liked this more than the last book, but not as much as the first few. Rusch had a way of portraying aliens who really felt alien, not like humans in costume. And when her later books started focusing more on local politics/dynamics, they became less engaging. However the character of Miles does grow more interesting ever book. So while this book has very few aliens, it is more exciting because it brings us in contact with Mile's past in a totally unexpected way. I read it in one day and am curious to see what happens in the next book, so the series feels back on track for me.