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    Crooked Pieces: Future Grit And Hard-Boiled Action - Part One
    Crooked Pieces: Future Grit And Hard-Boiled Action - Part One
    Crooked Pieces: Future Grit And Hard-Boiled Action - Part One
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    Crooked Pieces: Future Grit And Hard-Boiled Action - Part One

    By Mike Whitacre

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    Turbine 7000 Dozer, a seven-foot tall robot, arrives in San Francisco after many long years. With a war still waging across the solar system he hopes to make use of what little time off he has, but the reunion seems to only remind him that war follows, even in times of peace and respite.

    Nearly upon arrival, he is met with tired revelations of the things that change, and of the things that never change. Are old memories enough to rekindle the desires of love and friendship? Or, did the weight of it all transform lovers into cheaters... friends into maddened foes?

    Peace in the bloody massacre...

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMike Whitacre
    Release dateDec 7, 2018
    ISBN9780463049020
    Crooked Pieces: Future Grit And Hard-Boiled Action - Part One
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    Mike Whitacre

    A fiction writer, carving his own gruesome path through his work. He often mixes genres, but is primarily interested in the Crime/Mystery genre that utilizes the style of hard-boiled writers like Raymond Chandler. He lives in California, making too many damnable mistakes.

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