The Outlier #3: Lost Souls

By "Tom" "Lichtenberg"

The world's #1 Big-Data Detective returns in yet another extremely unlikely, if not impossible adventure. This time the wrong things are happening at the wrong times in the wrong places while pasts and futures hang in the balance. Part Freakonomics, part Sherlock Holmes, part Doctor Who, part somewhere on the spectrum and 100% completely absurd, The Outlier series continues with "The Outlier #3, Lost Souls, another Dillon Sharif Tall Tale.

• Language: English
• Publisher: "Tom" "Lichtenberg"
• Release date: Mar 23, 2014
• ISBN: 9781310464249

"Tom" "Lichtenberg"

Author of curiously engaging novellas of the science-fiction-y, post-modern-y, absurdist variety

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The Outlier #3: Lost Souls

by Tom Lichtenberg

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She was a half-Japanese half-Maori all-Canadian punk rocker from Vancouver and let's face it. If you were a dethroned princess raised in foster care in one of the most beautiful cities in the world, and it rained all the time, you'd be pretty pissed off too. Kintara Soh never made it easy for anyone, and no one ever made it easy for her. By fifteen she was on her own, out on the streets, playing bass and yelling her lungs out nightly on stage with her band, The Sidewalk Hosers. By seventeen she was touring East Asia and winning multiple Grungy awards. By nineteen she'd added college graduate to her attainments, on her fast track to law school and ultimate global domination. Always a force, never bending, let alone breaking, she let no one and nothing stand in her way. Except for this one guy she met and fell in love with, a cranky Middle Eastern loner named Wilkins Sharif. In some ways they were mirror images of one another – both small and slight, bony and dark with narrow eyes, jet black hair and pointy chins. In other ways they could not have been more different – she loud, he quiet, she stubborn, he yielding - but over time they melded and merged to such an extent that it could be difficult to tell where one left off and the other began.

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