Mathew Swain 2
When Trouble Beckons
by Mike McQuay
1981 Bantam
When Trouble Beckons
by Mike McQuay
1981 Bantam
Scifi Private Eye Mathew Swain goes to the moon to help an old friend, to find her comatose with a dead man in her apartment. He finds drone workers, hostile police, and everyone clamming up at the word "beckon".
The process works better than the result - the clues don't make sense and the uncovered plot makes even less. Swain still cracks wise, but there wasn't a good sense of location. Half on the moon, half in a space station, and only occasional confusing references to the state of gravity.
Toned down from the first installment, though there are a couple of interesting sequences of him mind melding with a woman's consciousness in a tube.
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