Review: Not quite human but the kind of friend you can really count on
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 7, 2014
Very good story. Tyler is a different kind of person. Probably Asperger's Syndrome. He is not technically a P.I. but he fixes situations for people by going outside legal parameters. Dr. Mickey something (not sure we are ever told his last name) is an oncologist at a convention in Syracuse, NY, who is set up for a con by a bar owner, pimp, and prostitute. The con artists drug the doctor, videotape him, and threaten him with uploading the video on the Internet. Mickey ends up in a fight with the pimp and gets beat up and arrested. He calls Tyler, the son of his deceased friends, to help him out.Tyler is amazing. Very logical and scientific. He completely lacks any normal human emotions so he practises faking them. He is also very loyal to his friends. The way he gets his friend Mickey out of the con is creative if illegal. A cross between MacGyver, Spock, Data, Bender, and Lawrence Block's thief Bernie.