Título: The Operative (San Angeles)
Autor: Gerald Brandt
Sinopse: The second installment in the San Angeles trilogy, a thrilling near-future cyberpunk sci-fi series
Kris Merrill was a survivor. She’d lost her parents as a young girl, and she’d been forced to flee the dubious shelter of her aunt’s home at thirteen to escape the unwanted attentions of her uncle. She’d lived on the streets of San Angeles, finding refuge in the lowest level of the city. When she got the chance, Kris found a room to rent on Level 2, earning a precarious living as a motorcycle messenger, a courier delivering sensitive materials the megacorporations would not trust to any method that could be hacked.
A year ago, Kris’s life changed irrevocably when a delivery went terribly wrong, and she was targeted for termination by the Meridian corporation, one of the most powerful of the megaconglomerates that controlled the government. Salvation came in the form of Ian Miller, who rescued Kris from certain death, recruiting her for the underground resistance group of which he was a part.
Since then, Kris has been hidden with the resistance, training to become an operative. Just as her training with the anti-corporate movement is nearing its end, their compound is destroyed by surprise attack.
Ready or not, Kris and the other trainees are recalled to the dangerous metropolis of San Angeles. But their transport is shot down and Ian Miller, the man she loves, is captured. Someone, it seems, is using him to get to Kris.
With the help of a retired operative with PTSD, and the mysterious man who fled the scene when Kris’s parents were killed, Kris searches for any sign of Ian. As the corporations battle civil unrest—and each other—the city slowly shuts down. Kris and San Angeles are running out of time....
Contexto da obra
Como livro em inglês, esta obra costuma ganhar também uma camada própria de interesse editorial e linguístico. “The Operative (San Angeles)”, de Gerald Brandt, publicado pela editora DAW, em 2017 e com 320 páginas, integra a categoria Livros em Inglês. Por isso, o interesse da obra tende a se ampliar quando o leitor considera também a relação com a língua em que ela circula.
Editora: DAW
Páginas: 320
Ano: 2017-11-07
Edição:
Linguagem: en
ISBN: 0756412056
ISBN13: 9780756412050
Sobre a editora
Os livros da editora DAW costumam transportar o leitor para mundos onde magia, poderes sobrenaturais e conflitos épicos são o centro da narrativa. As histórias frequentemente exploram personagens que enfrentam desafios ligados a habilidades ocultas, batalhas entre forças místicas e dilemas morais em cenários que vão desde universos fantásticos até realidades alternativas com elementos fantásticos. O ritmo tende a variar entre aventuras intensas e tramas que aprofundam a construção de mundos e relações complexas, com um tom que pode oscilar entre o sombrio e o esperançoso. O catálogo indica uma preferência por narrativas que mesclam fantasia épica, urban fantasy e ficção científica com elementos de fantasia, atendendo a leitores que buscam imersão em universos detalhados e tramas de tensão crescente.
