num_pages: 50
description: Metropolis wasnt a bad place but it wasnt a good one either.THESE MEAN STREETS DARKLY is the prequel to the cyberpunk detective series LIQUID COOL.Its a world of colossal skyscrapers. Hover-cars fly above in the dark rainy skies and gray people walk below on the grimy hard streets in the Neon Jungle. Uber-governments and mega-corporations fight for control of the super-city but so does crime. An average woman Carolhardworking and decent in every way loses her daughter to the psycho Red Rabbit. Can Police Central find the girl in timealive? And is it really a random senseless kidnapping in the fifty-million-plus city? There are a million victims and perpetrators in this High-Tech Low-Life World. This is one of those storiesbefore we meet our private eye (and unlikely hero) Cruz in the soon-to-be-released debut novel Liquid Cool.
language: English
title: These Mean Streets, Darkly
publisher: Well-Tailored Books