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Millennial Review XXII: Dover Beach by Richard Bowker (1987)

Dover Beach  (The Last P. I., volume 1)

By Richard Bowker  

6 Feb, 2000

Millennial Reviews

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Dover Beach
Richard Bowker
Spectra 1987
265 pages

Technically, this is set as late as 2010 but 10 meg HD were standard equipment 22 years earlier.

Synopsis: 22 years after a limited nuclear war devastated the US, young Wally Sands is trying to set himself up as a private eye. Postwar Boston has little demand for detectives, and he does no business until Dr Charles Winfield hires him to find Professor Cornwall. Winfield believes Cornwall cloned himself pre-war and that Winfield is the clone.

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