![]() Jenny, who has many secrets and a large amount of baggage, is furious and determined to get to the bottom of things. Several at first seemingly disparate events turn out to be linked: military grade drugs dropped into the Hartford gangland and killing kids, a cop goes off book to search for his partner’s killer and Jenny’s estranged somewhat sociopathic sister recruits local ronins and assassins to find her. One of the other survivors, for instance, has what is described as induced autism from hyperstimulation. Despite this, she is one of only a few survivors of this kind of enhancement, and the most functional. ![]() Jenny received a wetwired reconstruction after being critically injured in service, leaving her with a cyborg arm, nano-technology that whips her reflexes into an augmented battle-mode when her adrenalin starts pumping - and constant pain that she self-medicates with alcohol. Jenny Casey is a Canadian veteran of the war that they avoid calling World War III, now living in Hartford, Conneticut as a hard-boiled private investigator. These are apparent even in her first novel Hammered (Book 1 of the Jenny Casey series, AKA the Wetwired series) which won the 2007 Locus Award for First Novel. If you have every read any Elizabeth Bear novels, you will be familiar with her immersive world-building and in-depth characterisations. ![]()
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