Ris-ing Sun is a stand-alone, a pre-quel to David Macin-nis Gill's acclaimed Black Hole Sun. Jacob Stringfel-low, aka Durango, once had a promis-ing career in the elite armed forces. That was before. Before his father betrayed him and his unit. Before he almost died and had an arti-fi-cial intel-li-gence flash-cloned to his brain. Now Durango and Mimi (the AI) are fig-ur-ing out how to get along and fig-ur-ing out how to stay in the game. Set on a vio-lent and unfor-get-table dystopian Mars, this is a must read for fans of the author's Black Hole Sun tril-ogy and for any-one who loves intense, action-packed sci-ence fiction.