Tex Murphy and the Tesla Effect
The Tex Murphy saga continues with an all-new novel!
This story has been waiting to be told for a long time. Originally, this was one of three adventures intended to be sequels to Under a Killing Moon and The Pandora Directive, starting back in 1996. In typical Tex Murphy fashion, things didn't work out quite as planned. But, even though the last Tex Murphy video game was released in 1998 and the last novel was published in 1995, Tex's loyal legion of fans never gave up hope. Now, after sixteen long years, the story finally continues...
Thanks to the support and generosity of Tex Murphy fans around the world, a successful Kickstarter campaign helped to finance a new Tex Murphy adventure. I contributed the story to the new video game, "Tesla Effect", and then, while the game was in development, set about writing the novel to tell the original story I've kept locked away for all these years.
With the success of the game and the renewed interest in Tex Murphy, I am looking forward to telling the final two long-lost stories as well. One will pick up from the end of The Pandora Directive and reveal the exciting events that happened prior to Tex Murphy and the Tesla Effect. The other will continue the story that comes after, leading up to Tex's last ride into the sunset.
So what about the story in this novel?
It’s June 2043 and things are finally looking up for Tex Murphy, P.I. He just solved the biggest case of his life (so far) and actually got paid for it. After a romantic dinner with the lovely Chelsee Bando, Tex is in love, out of debt and on top of the world. What could possibly go wrong?
Then Tex wakes up, disoriented and head pounding, on the fire escape outside his office/apartment at the Ritz Hotel. Soon after, he discovers that all his memories since that night with Chelsee have been erased. But why? And who was behind it? The rival P.I. who was doing surveillance on Tex’s office and turns up murdered? One of the mysterious characters racing to find a priceless collection of Nikola Tesla’s documents and lost inventions? Or the shadowy organization that’s made a fortune in cryonics – freezing (and, rumor has it, reanimating) dead bodies?
Tex Murphy, the last of the old-school gumshoes, is on the case for himself this time. Motivated by lost love, revenge and the world’s strongest coffee blend, Tex will need every bit of his questionable social skills, relatively quick thinking, blind luck and the ol’ Murphy charm. Only by investigating his own past can Tex hope to regain his memory in time to solve the mysteries of the past and present and prevent a devastating future.
This story has been waiting to be told for a long time. Originally, this was one of three adventures intended to be sequels to Under a Killing Moon and The Pandora Directive, starting back in 1996. In typical Tex Murphy fashion, things didn't work out quite as planned. But, even though the last Tex Murphy video game was released in 1998 and the last novel was published in 1995, Tex's loyal legion of fans never gave up hope. Now, after sixteen long years, the story finally continues...
Thanks to the support and generosity of Tex Murphy fans around the world, a successful Kickstarter campaign helped to finance a new Tex Murphy adventure. I contributed the story to the new video game, "Tesla Effect", and then, while the game was in development, set about writing the novel to tell the original story I've kept locked away for all these years.
With the success of the game and the renewed interest in Tex Murphy, I am looking forward to telling the final two long-lost stories as well. One will pick up from the end of The Pandora Directive and reveal the exciting events that happened prior to Tex Murphy and the Tesla Effect. The other will continue the story that comes after, leading up to Tex's last ride into the sunset.
So what about the story in this novel?
It’s June 2043 and things are finally looking up for Tex Murphy, P.I. He just solved the biggest case of his life (so far) and actually got paid for it. After a romantic dinner with the lovely Chelsee Bando, Tex is in love, out of debt and on top of the world. What could possibly go wrong?
Then Tex wakes up, disoriented and head pounding, on the fire escape outside his office/apartment at the Ritz Hotel. Soon after, he discovers that all his memories since that night with Chelsee have been erased. But why? And who was behind it? The rival P.I. who was doing surveillance on Tex’s office and turns up murdered? One of the mysterious characters racing to find a priceless collection of Nikola Tesla’s documents and lost inventions? Or the shadowy organization that’s made a fortune in cryonics – freezing (and, rumor has it, reanimating) dead bodies?
Tex Murphy, the last of the old-school gumshoes, is on the case for himself this time. Motivated by lost love, revenge and the world’s strongest coffee blend, Tex will need every bit of his questionable social skills, relatively quick thinking, blind luck and the ol’ Murphy charm. Only by investigating his own past can Tex hope to regain his memory in time to solve the mysteries of the past and present and prevent a devastating future.
The novel's story is continually inviting and beguiling. Just when you think you've figured something out, Conners throws another twist at you that's guaranteed to send you reeling. I found myself constantly wanting to read "just one more chapter" before bed, which soon turned into 3 or 4 chapters and then, before I knew it, 3 or 4 A.M. The book combines this old-school detective mystery style with a science fiction element that makes for an atmosphere genuinely unlike anything I've ever read before. Fans of either genre will find something to love here. –Amazon Review
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Also available as an e-book for Kindle or in paperback from Amazon
Also available as an e-book for Kindle or in paperback from Amazon
The Kindle-only alternate cover, designed by Bronze Swallow. All other covers designed by Bjorn Ottesen.