I like reading a good space opera every once in a while, and really enjoyed this one. Or rather, it's a space opera in content and themes, but structured more as a noir + horror novel. Good mix of gumshoe and sci-fi.

This is sort of a tweener in science fiction -- not an immediate future type of book, and not a far future book like the Ian Banks books. It's set in our solar system after we've colonized Mars and the asteroid belt -- so the big political entities are the Earth and Mars, with the asteroid belt as a sort of frontier land.

Fun book, good pacing, entertaining. First of a trilogy.