P.E.A.C.E.
   Guy Holmes
  2000 Simon & Schuster, NY USA
   ISBN: 0684870797


In the future, New York City is a surveillance state where video cameras record everything from vandalism to murder & the NYPD wield innovative & much-touted tranquilizer guns. The Police Enforced Anti-Crime Environment (P.E.A.C.E.) seems to be working perfectly - crime is down & the citizens seem content.

Everyone says those tranquilizer guns are harmless, they simply stun perps for the few seconds needed to subdue them & restore peace. One of New York's elite undercover agents, Mac Wells, is not so sure. During a fracas in the subway he had accidently tranqed his partner who began showing strange symptoms & ended up in hospital.

When his partner suddenly & inexplicably dies, Mac is wracked with guilt & doubts creep into his mind. When he stumbles upon a conspiracy that reaches the highest level in the police department & ultimately into the government, Mac has to choose where his loyalties lie & whom to trust.

P.E.A.C.E. is also about a reporter with a clue, a wife with a steady hand & resources of her own & about the corruption of power in the corporate world when it puts profit before ethics & dabbles in untested solutions to age-old problems.

In a heart-pounding, ungodly vision of the future of Big Brotherhood, Guy Holmes' maiden novel brings to life a handful of heroes worth meeting & paints a deadly, intricate picture of the profits & moralities of science & experiments, politics & justice. A satisfying, thought-provoking read!

Do check out my Interview with this author!
(02/04/01)

Rebecca