Blackbox Protocol: A Neverwhen Adventure: 1 (Neverwhen Chronicles)

Being a PI in the high-tech magical city of Manzala requires more than street-smarts. Martin Aten makes do with a lifetime of experience in software engineering. Accompanied by the voice of his wife Jean and his memories of days gone by he lives each life day-to-day just scraping through.But every once in a while a job comes along thats bigger than it looks. And when the citys most successful techno-dwarf hires Martin to recover a stolen prized personal possession--the job already looks massive.From the dingy back-streets of Manzala to the planets beyond this case is going to take Martin farther than any other case before. The hunt for a stolen item brings him new friends new enemies and--if hes very very lucky--the chance to save Manzala from a danger it doesnt know is descending on it. Regardless he knows hes not returning to Manzala the same man who left it.