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After three novels set in the past and detailing the typical operations of Company operatives, Kage Baker's series jumps into the future with The Graveyard Game. Joseph and Lewis, brought together by their concern over the fate of Botanist Mendoza, begin an investigation into her disappearance that will last centuries, lead them all over the world, and reveal some of Dr. Zeus's deepest secrets. Some questions are answered. Others remain. New problems emerge. And the Silence grows closer. There's a strange, electric atmosphere in this novel, as Joseph and Lewis search for vanished Mendoza and get a glimpse of their ultimate destiny. It reads like a Hammett or Chandler novel, Joseph a disenchanted Sam Spade, Lewis a tormented Marlowe. But that investigation will run deeper than expected, from rural England to the North African desert, when they discover what's beneath the sand. The phantom of the Enforcer Budu looms large, whilst we make knowledge of less savory members of the Company, like sulfurous Victor, and the list of disappeared cyborgs lengthens as the final date approaches.
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Mendoza is a Preserver for The Dr. Zeus Company, living in the past to collect species for the future. But when she kills six people in California in 1863, The Company makes her disappear.
Joseph, a senior Preserver, loves Mendoza as the daughter he never had. Drunk on chocolate and fueled by rage, he's determined to find her however long it takes. Being an indestructible, immortal cyborg gives him an unlimited well of patience.
What begins as a rescue mission uncovers a conspiracy stretching across fifty centuries of recorded history. Behind it lie genocide, graveyards filled with Company agents, and the roots of the ominous Silence that falls across the world in 2355.
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