Badseedgirl
9/16/2015
Avery Cates, at twenty-seven, is an old man in his industry, that industry being contract killer in a futuristic New York. The society has evolved into a liberals nightmare picture Reagan's "trickle-down economy" and the 1% all wrapped up in one, and very Cates is not a one percenter.
I loved this novel. It was less science fiction and more a detective noir novel set in the future. I kept visualizing "Bladerunner" (The movie, I have not read Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? yet.)
Mr. Cates is a hard-boiled anti-hero that I could not help but root for. His mission in this novel is to kill the leader of the largest growing church on the planet, The Electric Church. Members of the church give up their bodies to have their brains inserted into androids, thus allowing them to live forever.
The pacing of this novel was fast, and the characters were well developed, making The Electric Church by Jeff Somers a wonderful read!