st Time in Paperback for the Sequel to <i>One Jump Ahead</i> and <i>Slanted Jack</i>. Jon and Lobo are back with More Rapid-Fire Action, as They’re About to be Painfully Reminded that No Good Deed Goes Unpunished—and the Consequences May be Fatal to Their Partnership.<br><br>It began as a favor to a woman trying to get away from an abusive husband.<BR><BR> Jon Moore grew up in a prison laboratory. When he escaped with nothing but his body's nanotech enhancements and more anger than even a long lifetime could wash away, an entire planet died behind him. Memories of the things he’d done still haunted him; because of them, he often ended up helping those in need.<BR><BR> His kindnesses frequently didn't work out well. This one <i>really</i> didn't work out well. It hurled Jon and Lobo, the intelligent assault vehicle and Jon's only friend, down an accelerating, ever more dangerous spiral involving:<BR><BR>· Private armies and government covert ops teams<BR><BR>· A courtesan who always seems a step ahead of him<BR><BR>· Rival superpowers that define Good in terms of their own advantage and Ethics as whatever doesn't get in the way of their Good<BR><BR>· And a brilliant, amoral scientist to whom human beings are just more experimental animals--and who might be Lobo’s creator.<BR><BR> Jon and Lobo take the reader on a headlong rush through armed enemies and untrustworthy allies and encounter what just might be the worst danger their partnership will face: the truth.