Series: Book 4 in the Fixer series
Rating: Not rated
Tags: Fiction, Science Fiction
Summary
Roland Tankowicz hates Venus.
The last time he went there, he died. So, no one could
really blame him if he never went back. Nevertheless, when a squad of Venusian assassins ruins date
night, everybody’s least-favorite Army-surplus cyborg
decides to take a trip to Earth’s sister planet and have
a sit-down with an infamous group of terrorists. Perhaps it’s because he really likes date night. Maybe
he just wants to keep the promise he once made to a troubled
young man. It is even conceivable that he might still have a
heap of unresolved issues with the separatists who blew his
body apart years ago. For whatever reason, the big man and his
motley crew of misfits strap on their guns and hurl themselves
into the murky world of interplanetary terrorism. To his dismay, Roland discovers that Venus has changed since
his last visit. The black-and-white politics of the fanatics
and governments he remembers have now merged into complicated
shades of gray. Cyborg killers walk the halls without fear, and
the soldiers stationed there seem no better than the thugs they
fight. The sweltering underworld of Venus holds terrors and
trials that will test the old soldier in ways he is not
prepared for, while a crafty assassin stalks them all from
shadows both real and imagined. The team must to walk a narrow path between terrorists,
soldiers, and their own dark pasts if they expect to get out of
this one alive. Is The Fixer strong enough to pull an
entire population from the ashes of civil war? If he isn’t, they may all drown in a flood of: APHRODITE’S TEARS.