The Drum Trial: A Story in the Avery Cates Universe

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This volume contains two short stories - actually, they are more like sketches of more complete stories. Both are set in the Avery Cates universe after the Monk riots, when Cates universe is just starting to go off the rails, but no one is quite aware of that.

In the Drum Trial, a group of system police decide to buck the “do not disturb” order that Dick Marin, “King Worm,” the Director of Internal Security, has issued for Cates. This group decides that they can do a whole lot of good by taking out the rising star of the underworld and get some nice payback.

The story is told in a first person perspective from one of the police officers, which was mildly disorienting for a bit. The reader gets a nostalgic return to Pickering's and a world of crooks and cops.

Good times, good times...

The second story recounts how Cates met Gleason. If you don't recall Gleason, she was Cates' girl-Friday in [[ASIN:B0011UJMJ8 The Digital Plague (Avery Cates)]]. I had forgotten her, but she played a big role in that story. If you don't remember Gleason, then this isn't much of a story. If you do, it fills in a blank.

I'm still waiting for the Cates' book that tells us who was behind humanity's extinction/evolution.

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