Faded Steel Heat
core novel 1999 Garrett P.I.
Record
| First published | 1999 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.08 (2,221 ratings, collected 2026-09-12) |
| Page count | 368 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780451454799 |
| Internal chronology | 9 |
Synopsis
Faded Steel Heat, the ninth Garrett P.I. novel, draws Garrett into several overlapping cases at once. Alyx Weider, daughter of the beer baron Max Weider, brings Garrett an extortion scheme targeting her family's business, seemingly run by a human-rights activist group called the Call and its leader, Marengo North English. At the same time city officials Colonel Block and Deal Relway pressure Garrett into infiltrating the Call as an informant, putting him in an uncomfortable position between the activists and the authorities. The threads tangle further when a murder conspiracy surfaces involving shapeshifters infiltrating the Weider household, and what starts as an engagement party for the family turns into a crime scene.
Where it sits
- Universe: Garrett P.I.
- Series: Garrett P.I. core; position 9 of 14 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Glen Cook
Notes
- From the series record (Garrett P.I.): Core Canon = the 14-novel main sequence. Fourteen books were originally published one at a time from 1987 to 2013; omnibus reissues of groups of three exist but add no new content and are not catalogued separately.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings, but they resolve to the exact same sequence for this book, so one combined line is shown instead of two identical ones.
- Reading order, within the series Garrett P.I.: position 9 of 14: previous Petty Pewter Gods (1995) · next Angry Lead Skies (2002)
Sources
- Wikipedia: Garrett P.I.
- OrderOfBooks.com: Garrett P.I.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faded_Steel_Heat
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