Synopses & Reviews
Presenting Heavy Metal Pulp, a new line of novels combining noir fiction with fantastic art featuring the themes, story lines, and graphic styles of Heavy Metal magazine.In Pleasure Model, the first book in the Netherworld trilogy, down-and out police detective Rook gets a big break when hes assigned to a bizarre and vicious murder case. The clues are colder than the corpse and the case looks like itll remain unsolved—until an eyewitness is discovered. But the witness is a Pleasure Model, an illegal gene-grown human. Plesurs only purpose is to provide satisfaction to her owner—in any way. When the murderer targets Plesur in order to eliminate the one witness, Rook takes her into hiding to protect her. Thus begins a descent into the dark world of exotic pleasure mods and their illicit buyers and manufacturers. Rook frantically looks for clues, struggling to stay one stop ahead of those looking to kill them both. But is Rook falling under Plesurs spell….?
Review
“Pleasure Model evokes strains of Blade Runner with a terse, authentic Noir tone, mixed with the ethical ambiguities of a futuristic, amoral world and a cyberpunk sensibility. The story moves well and is told with a steady, authoritative hand, guaranteed to leave fans of both Noir and cyberpunk waiting for more.”--Shroud Magazine
Synopsis
Beginning a new line of novels combining noir fiction with fantastic art, the first book in the Netherworld trilogy features down-and out police detective Rook who gets a big break when he's assigned to a bizarre and vicious murder case.
About the Author
Christopher Rowley is a prolific science fiction and fantasy writer, author of Bazil Broketail and Starhammer. Rowley lives in New Yorks Hudson Valley.