Pages
256
Year
2015
Language
English

About

It was just another Tuesday morning when she walked into the office-young, as I suspected they all might be, another dark brunette with some assistance and enough eye black to match up to Cleopatra. And, who am I? I'm Ray, the world's last robot, famed and feared in equal measure, which suits me just fine-after all, the last place you'd expect to find Hollywood's best hit man is in the plain light of day.
Raymond Electromatic is good at his job, the lone employee of the Electromatic Detective Agency-except for Ada, office gal and super-computer, the constant voice in Ray's inner ear. Ray might have taken up a new line of work, but money is money, after all, and he was programmed to make a profit. Besides, with his twenty-four-hour memory-tape limits, he sure can keep a secret.
When a familiar-looking woman arrives at the agency wanting to hire Ray to find a missing movie star, he's inclined to tell her to take a hike. But she had the cold hard cash, a demand for total anonymity, and tendency to vanish on her own.
Plunged into a glittering world of fame, fortune, and secrecy, Ray uncovers a sinister plot that goes much deeper than the silver screen-and this robot is at the wrong place, at the wrong time.

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"Robot noir in 60s Los Angeles? You had me at 'Hello.'"
John Scalzi, New York Times bestselling novelist
"The dialogue is effortlessly swift and clever, and even the B-movie climax is a spectacle to behold. Above that, though, Ray sparks to live, and his antiheroic slant only makes him that much more compelling and and sympathetic. Knowing that there are only two more Raymond Electromatic mysteries to come is the book's only disappointment."
NPR
"Genre mash-ups don't always succeed, but this one will please fans of both gumshoes and laser beams."
Publishers Weekly

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