Midnight Water City

<b>Hawai&#145;i author Chris McKinney&#146;s first entry in a brilliant new sci-fi noir trilogy explores the sordid past of a murdered scientist deified in death through the eyes of a man who once committed unspeakable crimes for her.</b> <br> <b><br> </b>Year 2142: Earth is forty years past a near-collision with the asteroid Sessho-seki. Akira Kimura the scientist responsible for eliminating the threat has reached heights of celebrity approaching deification. But now Akira feels her safety is under threat so after years without contact she reaches out to her former head of security who has since become a police detective.<br><br> When he arrives at her deep-sea home and finds Akira methodically dismembered this detective will risk everything&#151;his career his family even his own life&#151;and delve back into his shared past with Akira to find her killer. With a rich cinematic voice and burning cynicism <i>Midnight Water City</i> is both a thrilling neo-noir procedural and a stunning exploration of research class climate change the cult of personality and the dark sacrifices we are willing to make in the name of progress.