San Francisco lies under a cloud of radioactive dust. People live in half-deserted apartment buildings, and keep electric animals as pets because so many real animals have died.
`I like work. I find it interesting . . . I can sit and look at it for hours.`
With ideas like this, perhaps it is not a good idea to spend a holiday taking a boat trip up the River Thames.
`I turned on the light, but there was nobody there. Then I saw something in the corner that made my blood turn cold. Scudder was lying on his back.
Curtis Colt didnt kill that liquor store woman, and thats a fact. Its not right that he should have to ride the lightning - thats what prisoners call dying in the electric chair.
Victor Frankenstein thinks he has found the secret of life. He takes parts from dead people and builds a new `man`.