John Douglas Powers

Retiree 2.0 John Douglas Powers

An anonymous and mysterious tip leads to a midnight raid on a waterfront warehouse, which goes unexpectedly wrong, causing Detective Chief Inspector Alana Graves to be placed on punitive leave. Her Crime Investigation Division is pulled into an increasingly complex web of cyborg kidnappings, with a rival being assigned to oversee the case. However, during the annual baseball all-star exhibition game between the Human and Cyber Leagues, she is drawn back to duty to manage what she believes to be the investigation of an unrelated, accidental death. The sequel to 2013's Retiree takes place later in the same summer of 2090. It continues to examine the implications of cybernetic technology on a future society, looking at how it might affect professional sports and how a single country's strictly controlled monopoly on artificial life extension might affect its international relations. Detective Ben Rhys, newly resurrected, struggles to cope with his cybernetic existence. Detective Brett Crabtree, now deep in a relationship with cyberforensics analyst Wen Jing "Wendy" Lin, questions whether he wants to continue with his police career. DCI Graves finds herself placed on the short list of candidates for promotion to Section Chief when her boss, Chief Bennett, begins to show signs of physical distress.