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Название книги: The Hand You're Dealt
Автор(ы): Robert Sawyer
Жанр: Научная Фантастика
Адрес книги: http://www.6lib.ru/books/The-Hand-You_re-Dealt-226997.html
And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.—John 8:32“Got a new case for you,” said my boss, Raymond Chen. “Homicide.”My heart started pounding. Mendelia habitat is supposed to be a utopia. Murder is almost unheard of here.Chen was fat — never exercised, loved rich foods. He knew his lifestyle would take decades off his life, but, hey, that was his choice. “Somebody offed a soothsayer, over in Wheel Four,” he said, wheezing slightly. “Baranski’s on the scene now.”My eyebrows went up. A dead soothsayer? This could be very interesting indeed.I took my pocket forensic scanner and exited The Cop Shop. That was its real name — no taxes in Mendelia, after all. You needed a cop, you hired one. In this case, Chen had said, we were being paid by the Soothsayers’ Guild. That meant we could run up as big a bill as necessary — the SG was stinking rich. One of the few laws in Mendelia was that everyone had to use soothsayers.Mendelia consisted of five modules, each looking like a w
Название книги: The Hand You're Dealt
Автор(ы): Robert Sawyer
Жанр: Научная Фантастика
Адрес книги: http://www.6lib.ru/books/The-Hand-You_re-Dealt-226997.html
And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.—John 8:32“Got a new case for you,” said my boss, Raymond Chen. “Homicide.”My heart started pounding. Mendelia habitat is supposed to be a utopia. Murder is almost unheard of here.Chen was fat — never exercised, loved rich foods. He knew his lifestyle would take decades off his life, but, hey, that was his choice. “Somebody offed a soothsayer, over in Wheel Four,” he said, wheezing slightly. “Baranski’s on the scene now.”My eyebrows went up. A dead soothsayer? This could be very interesting indeed.I took my pocket forensic scanner and exited The Cop Shop. That was its real name — no taxes in Mendelia, after all. You needed a cop, you hired one. In this case, Chen had said, we were being paid by the Soothsayers’ Guild. That meant we could run up as big a bill as necessary — the SG was stinking rich. One of the few laws in Mendelia was that everyone had to use soothsayers.Mendelia consisted of five modules, each looking like a w
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