Slanted Jack

Mark L Van Name’s first book in the Jon and Lobo series demolished all thealready high marketing projections. In Slanted Jack he’s vaulting thatstunning success with a novel that bobs and weaves, takes you on a headlong racethrough a strange but believable future, and never slows down.
The job lookssimple enough: Jon Moore, the nanotech-enhanced, world-weary, soldier offortune, agrees to help a con man, a friend from a part of his past he’drather forget, protect a very special young boy. The deal doesn’t staysimple, as each move Jon and Lobo make results in more danger and more enemies.The situation grows even more complicated when a beautiful woman with an unclearagenda joins them in their quest.

The best con man Jon’s everknown, a ruthless gang boss, a heavily armed group of religious fanatics, and aninterstellar government out to clean up a dangerous frontier world rush togethertoward an explosive climax—and Jon and Lobo are caught in the middle.

They’re willing to do anything to save the life of the boy—

But there may not be anything even they can do!

Slanted Jack:the second novel in the Jon & Lobo series.