John Dee is a magician in Los Angeles. He is going
insane. My Name Is Dee is a ruthless, tightly plotted
noir that shies away from easy explanations and easily
defined heroes and villains. It is a novel for the
educated reader who enjoys noir action, intrigue and
dark romance, for the child in all of us who wants to go
on adventures, and for the fearful adult too who marvels
at the terrifying scale of this universe. John Dee is a
magician, but he's chiefly a Hollywood fixer: he makes
things happen for the monied, including murder. In
"moral compensation" for his services as a ruthless
mercenary, Dee has sworn to himself to protect writers
in Los Angeles from the dark energies of the city. One
such writer, Sandra, his friend, is then kidnapped. The
noir trajectory of Dee's search for the missing woman
takes the reader on a journey from Los Angeles into the
corridors of the human mind as Dee fights psychic
battles with an autistic boy named Johnny, into the
eternally complex relationship between "natural" and
"artificial" intelligence as Dee learns to love his AI
son Albert, and into xenopolitical relations between
humans and Foo, the neighboring aliens in their UFOs,
and further with Chaimougkos, a huge interdimensional
alien presence whose will, aims and extent of influence
appear vast. To rescue the girl and save his own life,
Dee must come to understand himself, must reconcile with
his AI son, must, dare I say it, battle interdimensional
aliens. And he must choose what moral course his life is
going to take: can he stand to still wear the grey
hat?
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