The Clarity of Cold Steel by Kevin Wright

SPFBO7 SPSFC SPSFC 2022

The kid disappeared two days ago. Missing. Abducted. Murdered. What have you... Just another in an endless line of indigent kids wrung from the dregs of the Machine City. And it’s my job to find him. Me. Avinash Shakteel, detective extraordinaire. Probably you ain’t heard of me. Not if you run the straight and narrow and ply the right side of the tracks. Cause me? I ply the other. Two days missing… Two long days in the Machine City, last bastion of mankind in all its fallen glory. Where the sum total of life’s cheaper than in part. I hope I find the kid. By God, I do. But if I can’t find all of him, I pray I find none. Join Detective Shakteel in this gritty steampunk thriller sure to set your blood to boil.

Adult • Fantasy/Steampunk, Gaslamp, and Flintlock • Science Fiction/Post-Apocalyptic • Mystery, Thriller, and Suspense/Detective Fiction