In a world where death is a thing of the past, how far would you go to solve your own murder? NYPD detective Paul Donner and his wife Elise were killed in a hold-up gone wrong. Fifty years later, Donner is back: revived courtesy of the Shift. Supposedly the unintended side-effect of a botched biological terrorist attack and carried by a ubiquitous retrovirus, the Shift jump-starts dead DNA and throws the life cycle into reverse, so reborns like Donner must cope with the fact that they are not only slowly youthing toward a new childhood, but have become New York''s most hated minority. With New York quarantined beneath a geodesic blister, government and basic services have been outsourced by a private security corporation named Surazal. Reborns and infected norms alike struggle in a counterclockwise world, where everybody gets younger, you can see Elvis every night at Radio City Music Hall, and nobody has any hope of ever seeing the outside world. Lost in a sea of nostalgia, NYC becomes an inwardly focused schizophrenic culture of alienation and loss. In this backwards-looking culture where only some of the dead have returned, Donner is haunted by revivers guilt, and becomes obsessed with finding out who killed him and his non-returning wife. Little does he know, strange forces have already begun tracking him. Donner isn''t the only one obsessed with the past.
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SciFi Noir
21 Nov 2011
By SciFiChick
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NYPD detective Paul Donner and his wife are murdered one night in what seemed to be robbery-gone-wrong. Then, fifty years later, Donner is revived and given another chance at life. After a virus called Shift spread across New York, the dead can be brought back to life - with the major side effect that they'll start growing younger, without stopping. In a future world where noir is back in style, Donner hunts for the truth behind his murder, and learns of a much larger plan to control age and immortality.
Donner is an alcoholic, whose marriage was rocky before the murder of him and his wife. The new population of reanimated dead are second class citizens, so resuming his place in the police department is out of the question. Instead, Donner becomes a private investigator, with his first case a missing person - a missing scientist that eventually leads back to his own investigation. Artificially Intelligent, virtual psychiatrist, Maggie, appoints herself as Donner's partner of sorts as she looks after his well-being.
Dempsey has created a fun world of futuristic science fiction blended with the retro-noir of a hard-boiled detective novel. The setting and feel is definitely retro, but the subject matter is science fiction. Fans of both genres should enjoy this fantastic story with colorful characters. Fast-paced, with plenty of adventure and suspense, Necropolis was impossible to put down.
Donner is an alcoholic, whose marriage was rocky before the murder of him and his wife. The new population of reanimated dead are second class citizens, so resuming his place in the police department is out of the question. Instead, Donner becomes a private investigator, with his first case a missing person - a missing scientist that eventually leads back to his own investigation. Artificially Intelligent, virtual psychiatrist, Maggie, appoints herself as Donner's partner of sorts as she looks after his well-being.
Dempsey has created a fun world of futuristic science fiction blended with the retro-noir of a hard-boiled detective novel. The setting and feel is definitely retro, but the subject matter is science fiction. Fans of both genres should enjoy this fantastic story with colorful characters. Fast-paced, with plenty of adventure and suspense, Necropolis was impossible to put down.
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Good read
30 Nov 2011
By Evan Scangas
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Format:Paperback
This was a well done book. I enjoy a good detective novel and this one fit the bill nicely. The mixture of future technology hidden inside retro objects was fairly well done but did seem to be a somewhat easy cheat for making things happen that would have been otherwise difficult. I did enjoy the whole reverse aging system as well as possibility that well known people could be alive again, though almost none are actually featured in the book. I'd pickup the next novel from Michael Dempsey to see what he has come up with next regardless of it being a sequel or a standalone. The book certainly leaves itself open for a followup or even series of detective novels. The are a number of well depicted characters many of whom could feature as the main character in their own novels and Mr. Dempsey has a rich future world in which to create even more stories.
Overall, if you're a fan of the genre I'd say pick it up and give it a read. I read the book in 2 sittings and was content with the ending as well as the books pace. I don't think I'd re-read it again unless a sequel came out far enough into the future to make me want a refresher but that is the fate of most mysteries, once you know the twists it hurts the chance you'll ever re-read the book.
final tally - get it, read it.
Overall, if you're a fan of the genre I'd say pick it up and give it a read. I read the book in 2 sittings and was content with the ending as well as the books pace. I don't think I'd re-read it again unless a sequel came out far enough into the future to make me want a refresher but that is the fate of most mysteries, once you know the twists it hurts the chance you'll ever re-read the book.
final tally - get it, read it.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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A Great Ride - Don't Want to Get Off!
11 Oct 2011
By Jeffrey S Sutton
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It's rare to find a book that offers so much to the reader. From its film noire-inspired references to steam-punk vision to a set of richly developed characters, Necropolis is an amazing debut book for Mr. Dempsey. I look forward to his continued success as a novelist.
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