Echoes - Echoverse, Bk 1 Author:Therin Knite Washington District of Columbia United Republic of Earth, November-September 2712 . As a young upstart at the Interdistrict Bureau of Intelligence, Adem Adamend has it rough. He does all the work and gets none of the credit, and his "kid genius" status hurts more than it helps. Then hotshot lawyer Victor Manson is bu... more »rned to death in his own back yard, and Adem finds himself using his unique skills to piece together the strangest crime he's ever seen. Strange because the only possible suspect Adem can pin the murder on... is a mythical beast.
Before Adem can unravel the mystery of Manson's death, the Bureau loses jurisdiction to the secretive EDPA, an organization that investigates weird and deadly events. But Adem isn't one for giving up, so he takes it upon himself to delve deeper into EDPA's machinations, into the series of unfortunate events that led to Manson's demise. And what he finds may change the way he views the world -- and himself -- forever.« less