Moss’s particular role within NCIS isn’t what you’d expect. Moss’s relationship with her own physicality and ambulation through the use of various prosthetics are differentiating factors that make her more interesting and sympathetic than other protagonists in this genre. The one notable exception is her left leg, which was amputated above the knee after an accident in the field. In most ways, Moss is a typical hard-boiled detective: highly intelligent, intimate with humanity’s dark side, and sporting a gruff persona that conceals a vulnerable and compassionate heart. The Gone World begins in 1997, and tells the story of Shannon Moss, an agent working for the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS). Sweterlitsch’s imagination demonstrates impressive nuance and scope, and his prose slices the mind like a brutal blade. In this riveting and extremely grim science fiction thriller, the classic detective novel gets a time travel twist. It feels odd to call Tom Sweterlitsch’s The Gone Worlda ”fun” read, but fun is a whole lot of what I had while reading it.
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