I’ve just finished the second book in the Wonderland Cycle, which is called Redeye.

What are you working on next? Will it be a part of this same world? You don’t have to go very far in order to see where the problems with that particular concept lie – don’t get me wrong, government doesn’t do a perfect job either, but when corporations get involved…. Well, the real message I’m putting out there is that it’s bad to let private businesses run vital civil agencies. That’s one of the things I love about the creative process!ĭoes it have an underlying message that you hope the readers grasp? I did, though like most of my books I know the beginning and the end but I know absolutely nothing about how I’m gonna get there until I write it out. When you started writing, did you already have the Bone Wires‘ ending worked out? I’d already established the concept of Civil Protection in Shadow of a Dead Star, the corporation that runs the police in Seattle, and so I thought it would be interesting to explore that concept further through the eyes of an employee.

I’d been doing a lot of reading about the question of privitizing the police over in the United Kingdom, as well as essays on the prison-industrial complex that has established itself in this country. There’s a lot of history in the setting that can be explored, and Bone Wires is an example of that. Are they part of a series or are they more of a set of companion novels?īone Wires is a companion novel, one which shares the same setting as Shadow of a Dead Star and the other upcoming novels of the Wonderland Cycle, which is Seattle of the late 21st century. the houses, and his new novel, Bone Wires.ī one Wires is set in the same world as your other novel, Shadow of a Dead Star. A thrilling mystery set in the same world as the Wonderland Cycle, Bone Wires is a grim trip into the streets of the empty future.Micheal Shean on his skills as a detective, self publishing vs. Caught in a dangerous mix of murder, betrayal and conflicting corporate interest, Gray will find himself not only matching wits with a diabolical murderer but grappling with his growing doubt toward his employers in the dawning months of the American tricentennial. When a serial killer begins harvesting the spinal tissue of corporate employees all over the city, Detective Gray finds himself plunged into the first truly major case of his career. What used to be considered an important – even glamorous – department for public police is very different for the corporate species, and Gray finds himself stuck in a dead end job. In Seattle, that role is filled by Civil Protection, and Daniel Gray is a detective in Homicide Solutions. In the wasteland of commercial culture that is future America, police are operated not by government but by private companies.

Bone Wires by Michael Shean