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Loading... The Nine Lives of Catseye Gomez (edition 1992)by Simon Hawke
Work InformationThe Nine Lives of Catseye Gomez by Simon Hawke
   None No current Talk conversations about this book.   ) melydia | Mar 3, 2021 |  The time is after the Collapse ; the period where Earth went into a modern dark age. People had used and abused the world to a point where economically and politically civilization imploded. Resources had been depleted and corruption was rampant. After time, people figured out how to come back to where civilization had been and a bit beyond. This time, magic was a big part of the recovery and Catseye is a product of it. He is a thaumagenetic engineered creature; a product of magic and science. He is also a big fan of Mickey Spillane and that era. Appearance-wise, he is rough around the edges, a chewed up alley cat, with a turquoise stone in place of a missing eye. A stone that has magical powers. Gomez, as he prefers to be called, finds himself in new digs in Denver, Colorado. It’s a big change from Santa Fe, New Mexico. Denver is big city, Santa Fe is laid back and open. His previous roommate has passed away and asked a friend to give Gomez a home. The friend turns out to be the police commissioner of Denver. When Susan James, a well-known TV reporter, dies in a car explosion outside the modern and exclusive high-rise apartment building where Gomez now lives, Gomez finds himself involved in an unusual case and working with some unusual people. I’d say this is a combination sci-fi and fantasy mystery. Gomez’s speech is “tough PI” a la Spillane. Sometimes he gets a little long and philosophical, but it was still a fun read. Something different. I have found that this is the only book of this character. It was based on a short story written by the author. I had hoped there would be more, and the ending gave a little of that feeling. Sigh… (  ) ChazziFrazz | Jul 25, 2020 | no reviews | add a review
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Catseye, P.I.Name's Gomez. I'm a cat. And yeah, I talk. Because in an age of magic, nothing's quite what it seems. When you combine magic with genetic engineering, predators and crooks take on a thousand different forms. So do the good guys. Denver was a new town, new turf for an old stray tom like me. I came in search of a fresh start, but what I found was criminal. It all began when Susan Jacobs, an ambitious and beautiful young broadcaster, met up with a car bomb that blew a lot more than her ratings sky high. After what happened in New Mexico, I needed a case like this like I needed a big hairball. But Susan Jacobs had a sexy little calico whose lambent golden eyes had a look in them that made it really hard to just say no....So together with a Zippo-snapping, studded leather rebel cop named Leventhal, I'm prowling the streets and alleys of the Mile High City among political whack-jobs, religious nuts, media weasels, talking snakes, gutter sorcerers and wizard wannabes, on a cat-and-mouse hunt for a killer. And when I find out who it is, the fur is really gonna fly... No library descriptions found. 
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