Publisher's Synopsis
"Praying For The Surgeon" is a fast-paced novel with lots of twists and turns that keep smashing its reader's head against the wall... It is full of action, drama, and suspense - all set in a future where genetic engineering and total data control is running rampant. It combines cyberpunk, 80s retro style and the modern genre of biopunk into a thrilling ride of a book! Witness what happens when Philip K. Dick meets Mickey Spillane... Deckard and Mike Hammer are about to have a little baby - and it is nasty! Summary: In a war-torn America of the future where genetic engineering has become commodity, Rhys Faulkner works as an assassin for the police by day and as a private investigator by night. Hired by the government he kills enemies of the state for head money and makes the rest of his living by hunting down the vilest scum imaginable at the request of his civilian clients - but this time he has bitten off more than he can chew... It looked like an easy job. Expose the unfaithful husband, get the cash, move on. But things turn out differently as he soon finds himself hunted by his own police colleagues who try to kill him with extreme prejudice! Something is going on in the streets of St. Fallen. Something scary and unfathomable. Ghosts of the past rise, blood runs through the gutters, the citizens are hunted by dark perverse visions - and Rhys Faulkner has to fight for his life while he tries to save everyone's soul from the corrupting influence of an evil that has emerged from the laboratories of progress! Welcome to a world where the American Dream has turned into a genetic nightmare... Welcome to unfiltered terror... Welcome to the fear that robs you blind... ...Welcome to the REIGN OF THE TURANID...
