Dick Richards: Private Eye (The Life and Times of Dick Richards: Private Eye and Other People Too #1)
Chris Wong Sick Hong
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· 1 ratings · 283 pages · Published: 05 Aug 2012
"With tinges of Harrison's Stainless Steel Rat and Gibson's Burning Chrome, Dick Richards forges a unique alloy of fantasy, magic, and science into an engaging and entertaining story." - Kevin Noel Olson
Does saving the world count if you do it out of spite?
They call me a dick because I am one: Dick Richards, Private Eye. Tour guides and politicians up for reelection crow about how Tipton’s “majestic skyscrapers paint a living mosaic of light against the edges of space,” blissfully ignorant of the Under seeping through society’s cracks like fluorescent mold.
Elves, dwarves, superheroes…everyone’s got secrets and what’s a little blackmail among associates? That’s just life. And while there isn’t enough cash in the universe to pay for knight-in-shining-armor suicide missions, there are lines. Tap dance across those—firebomb my apartment and kill my friends—and now it’s personal.
Author's Note
My book is detective noir crammed in a blender with sci-fi, fantasy and satire. I'd like to give you more so you can tell if it's your style, but I'm bad at knowing what my writing's like so I asked an AI to do it for me.
Our new robotic overlords think these books are similar to mine:
Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith. Seven Princes by John R. Fultz. Successor's Promise and Thief's Magic by Trudi Canavan. The Institute by Stephen King.