Flesh and Steel

Flesh and Steel -- a Warhammer novel 

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This is the first ever Warhammer novel I've read. I have never played the game (I'm generally not a gamer). It took me a short while to understand the concepts and the universe this book is set in. The language also took a few listening's to get it. Those who play the game might feel right at home with this world. 

I also liked it. The story is basically a detective novel with two story lines that twist into one. One has reprogrammed Servitor-bots that kill, and the other is a missing girl from a wealthy family. The detective is called Probator Symeon Noctis, he is from the wealthy community that he shunned. Guilt, understanding how the others live and the manner in which he treated others in his youth. 

When a bisected corpse is discovered in the neutral zone, Symeon walks into his most difficult case yet. He is joined by tech-priest Rho-1 Lux of the Collegiate Extremis (mostly called Lux). She is partially augmented with ports that can connect to machines in an attempt to "see" in machine code, the final few moments of a servitor. 

All up, this is a pretty good mystery. Seemed to drag a bit near the end, however, I didn't guess the 'whodunit' part. That's a change. 

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