Okay, here we go. The second novel in the Sundown Cycle is called PACIFIC STATE and it will be released by Black Rose Writing on 21 December 2023.
What’s the rumpus? Just this:
On the streets of Berlin all morals can be bought for a price, and Owen Resler sold his long ago. Once an underground dissenter, now a corporate drone, he spends his days reluctantly manipulating data for Big Pharma. Across town, notorious gun-for-hire Mia Warsaw is putting together a team to assassinate one of the city's more unscrupulous business moguls—and she needs someone to handle the ones and zeroes. When Warsaw crosses paths with an increasingly desperate Resler, she hands the former radical an ultimatum: he can either succumb to death by a thousand bureaucratic paper cuts or take a chance with her. Of course, there's no guarantee he'll survive that, either…
Below is the cover, hot off the 90s graphic novel press. The Ryan Gosling tech bro looks slightly worried, but I assume he simply forgot to take his creatine that morning after his MR-assisted workout.
PACIFIC STATE is a sequel to Reality Testing only in the sense that it takes place in the same universe. It is a standalone story. It will be available for pre-order soon enough.
