The Drum Trial

by Jeff Somers

Overview

New York is burning.

After the assassination of Dennis Squalor came the Monk Riots: Thousands of cyborgs, released from their digital prisons, expressing rage and suffering and insanity through violence and bloodshed. The System Security Force mobilizes with brutal efficiency to restore order, but they take losses--and they've been ordered not to go after the man they blame: A young Gunner named Avery Cates.

But the System Police aren't used to being told that someone is untouchable. And they have no intention of obeying this particular order.

Also contains the bonus Cates story, "A Small, Red-headed Problem"

Product Details

BN ID:	2940162064503
Publisher:	The Inner Swine
Publication date:	05/02/2018
Series:	Avery Cates Series
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Sales rank:	768,482
File size:	406 KB

About the Author

Jeff Somers (www.jeffreysomers.com) began writing by court order as an attempt to steer his creative impulses away from engineering genetic grotesqueries. His feeble memory makes every day a joyous adventure of discovery and adventure even as it destroys personal relationships, and his weakness for adorable furry creatures leaves him with many cats. He has published nine novels, including the Avery Cates Series of noir-science fiction novels from Orbit Books (www.avery-cates.com), the darkly hilarious crime novel Chum from Tyrus Books, and most recently tales of blood magic and short cons in the Ustari Cycle, including the novel We Are Not Good People and the novellas Fixer, The Stringer, Last Best Day, and The Boom Bands from Pocket Gallery (www.wearenotgoodpeople.com). He has published over thirty short stories, including “Ringing the Changes,” which was selected for inclusion in Best American Mystery Stories 2006, “Sift, Almost Invisible, Through,” which appeared in the anthology Crimes by Moonlight edited by Charlaine Harris, and “Three Cups of Tea,” which appeared in the anthology Hanzai Japan. He also writes about books for Barnes and Noble and About.com and about the craft of writing for Writer’s Digest, which also published his book on the craft of writing Writing Without Rules in 2018. He lives in Hoboken with his wife, The Duchess, and their cats. He considers pants to always be optional.

Editorial Reviews

"... an exhilarating example of powerful and entertaining storytelling." (Review of The Electric Church)

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2007/sep/08/featuresreviews.guardianreview6 - Keith Brooke