Nocturne For A Dangerous Man
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Publisher Description
Gavilan Robie was a man who lived a very private life--under any of a number of names and faces, many of whom had acquaintances and friends--but only a very few people were acquaintances of Gavilan Robie. Robie was a hunter, once a member of the clandestine Action Rescue Commitee, now freelance. And when he's hired by a powerful multi-national corporation to find an employee kidnapped by terrorists, he finds himself in over his head. He will need every trick he's picked up during years of covert ops just to survive.
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PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In the middle of the 21st century, Gavilan Robie has retired from rescuing kidnap victims for the covert Action Rescue Committee and is content to play his antique cello, quarrel with his mistress and keep his hand in by recovering missing works of art. But when Siv Mattheissen, the female lover of a high-powered lesbian CEO of an international conglomerate, is kidnapped by a self-proclaimed eco-terrorist group named "the Erinyes," Robie receives an offer he cannot refuse. Using a host of old connections as well as high-tech (virtual personas) and low-tech (martial arts) techniques, Robie tracks the kidnappers to a Chinese-controlled bank in Chile. Matz's first novel boasts a robust background (including substantial global warming, among other features), a large cast of ethnically diverse characters (Robie's own ancestry includes French, English, Scot, Basque and Native American) and a wealth of detail about life in the future. The world-building is so involved, in fact, that it sometimes slows the novel's pace and substantially diminishes its climax. But overall, this is an excellent debut, and one featuring a sensitive protagonist certain to appeal to intelligent action-SF readers.
Customer Reviews
Great read
I still have the same dog-eared copy I bought new in 1999. It's a great book. The first time I read it I couldn't make up my mind about it even though I had trouble putting it down. It has since made its way into my top 20 favorites. Much of the novel is told in flashback and keeping them separated from the main narrative can be a confusing if you aren't able to sit and pay attention. I've been waiting for it to come out as an ebook for a while. The font is so small in my paperback copy that my old eyes have trouble reading it.