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They say, “Never work with androids or children.”

Quirk had one job to do, deliver papers to a Milan mafia boss, before leaving Earth for his home in the asteroids. But that was before being tailed, poisoned—oh, yes—and hijacked into raising foulmouthed fourteen-year-old convent girl Angelika Moratti, aka Moth, who'd…

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What a great overall take on the mafia-and-waif trope.

Quirk is gentleman for hire, more or less, who ends up on the wrong side of the mob. Moth is a foul-mouthed, recently orphaned former-convent girl who needs a guardian. The two end up stuck together, hunting down a killer android on the moon.

I mean, if that didn’t check off your list of everything you want in a book, I don’t know what will. There are gun fights, weird technology, fancy Merino suits, a bi-curious protagonist, cursing, and surprising emotional investment. The next book in the series apparently also has…

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