Aaron Conners

Danger is like jello...there's always room for a little more. From the author of "Tex Murphy: Under a Killing Moon" and "Tex Murphy and the Tesla Effect" comes a new, expanded and updated edition of the second exciting adventure in the series. It's April 2043 and the seedy side of post-World War III San Francisco is a radioactive dive, but P.I. Tex Murphy calls it home. With business slow, money tight and the women in Tex's life shipping out, this private dick is singing the lonesome gumshoe blues. Until one night at the Brew & Stew diner... A mysterious old gent hires Tex to find a friend who's gone missing. It doesn't seem like much of a case at first, but with a generous retainer of cash and Cubana cigars, that's fine by Tex. Unfortunately, he's never been very good at staying out of trouble and it doesn't take long for him to find some. There's a drop-dead gorgeous nightclub singer who may end up just plain dead...a serial killer who supposedly committed suicide a year earlier...and a package sent from the missing man, containing a Chinese puzzle box that no one can seem to open. Tex finds himself in the middle of one of history's greatest conspiracies. Secrets that have been locked away for almost a century are about to be revealed. Why now, after so many years? What does the puzzle box contain? Why is the most powerful agency in the U.S. government hunting down the missing man? And can Tex find him before they do? The stakes are high, the deck is stacked and, as always, Tex Murphy is low on chips. But with his excellent bluffing skills and occasional lucky streaks, he just might have a fighting chance. Pandora's Box has been reopened. Can Tex close it before it's too late?

Tex Murphy and the Pandora Directive

There are no heroes anymore...only villains of varying degrees...From the author of "Tex Murphy and the Tesla Effect", "Tex Murphy and the Pandora Directive" and "Tex Murphy: Under a Killing Moon" comes the latest exciting adventure in the series.It's November, 2050 and Tex Murphy, P.I. is fresh off a mid-life crisis...but not the fun kind. First, his memory of the past seven years was mysteriously erased. Then he found out his dream girl, Chelsee, was long gone. And now his bank account-which got inexplicably fat during his lost years-is back to skin and bones.Fate has dealt Tex some lousy cards, but he has one ace in the hole. During his just-completed case, he turned up a secret bit of information worth a "king's ransom". Or so he was told by a new player in the game, the enigmatic Count St. Germain, who seemed more than ready to deal.But before Tex can determine what a king's ransom comes to in 2050 dollars, St. Germain raises the stakes: Tex has played a pivotal role in four potentially world-changing events over the past thirteen years (six, depending on your definition of "world-changing") and St. Germain suspects this hasn't happened by accident; a "Man Behind the Curtain" has made Tex an unwitting pawn in an unknown game. And it all seems to have started during Tex's very first case.With St. Germain's unique assistance, Tex travels into the past, recounting the story of his first case, back in 2037. Together, they find new connections between all of Tex's cases and pick up the trail of the unknown puppet master. A shocking discovery awaits about what happened all those years ago...and how those events are about to change Tex's future.

Tex Murphy and the Poisoned Pawn

A near-future dark mystery based on the computer game of the same name, and featuring Chandleresque detective Tex Murphy in his first case.

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