Rating: Recommended
Greenwillow Books, 2010, $16.99
ISBN: 978-0061673047
Age/Grade Level: YA
Earth has been decimated by a plague. Mars is in the process of being terraformed so that at the present time, the air and water of Mars are barely capable of supporting life. Mars resembles earth's wild west where kidnapping, assault and murder are common and no one is to be trusted. Durangeo is a mercenary--ahired gun but with a difference. He has an AI called Mimi flash-cloned to his brain, the latest in armor and weapons, and a conscience. Nonstop action and the bodies pile up as Durango and his crew of misfits are in a battle to the death against the Queen of Mars and her army of Draeu--DNA experiments gone wrong.
Reviewer: Patricia Campbell, OCPL/La Palma Library
