Ha, jag vet den här! Boken du vill ha är Hot Time i Gamla Stan , av Mike McQuay. Det är det första i en serie med 4 böcker om Mathew Swain, 21st century Private Eye.
Mathew Swain-serien - Hot Time i Old Town (1981), När Trouble Beckons (1981), The Deadliest Show in Town (1982) och The Odds Murder (1983) - härrör från verk av Raymond Chandler (1888 -1959) och Chandlers direkta efterträdare. När serien utvecklas, bekämpar Swain först och främst förstörelsen på jorden, sedan på månen och sedan på jorden, alltid att hitta lämpliga mål i de organisationer som dominerar samhället.Här är några utdrag från Hot Time i Gamla Stan :
"Venitas Boulevard was a carnival as I hummed my bullet through its misty innards. Midday whores, young ones who had to look good in the light of day, roamed the jungle paths looking for lunch money. Lean, tall studs in color-changing tunics and street-parade hair red as West Texas mud, prowled like panthers; their heads set firm, and their eyes ever watchful. Pack hunting brown cubs with black, tangled manes and guts full of government dope leaned against the hulking ruins of dead brownstones and called with primal elegance to those unfortunate enough to be passing by. It was Tuesday—garbage day."
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"He lives in Old Town. He has a sort of underground railroad to help the crazies get out of there."
"You mean, he smuggles mutants into the city?"
"Interesting world, isn't it?"
"How?"
"The ones who look . . . normal. The ones who can pass. He gets them new identities, or pays people to raise the children as their own. We help on the transportation end sometimes.''