False Value: Book 8 in the #1 bestselling Rivers of London series (A Rivers of London novel)

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Agent Reynolds of the FBI (and the one-person X-Files division) also makes an appearance, several actually throughout the book. If he hadn‘t done it this way, but had told the story in a linear fashion, we would have know from the start that Peter — spoiler! Peter briefly gets to look into the “eye” of something dark and malevolent when a portal opens up at the end of the book. A falsy (sometimes written falsey) value is a value that is considered false when encountered in a Boolean context.

Peter spends much of the book cut off from the badge and uniform that usually prop up his investigations, and while surrounded by the kind of tech that his magic usually fries, he must rely on old-fashioned detective work to help him catch the 'rat' hiding amongst the mice. Speaking of combat magic, there’s a scene in which Nightingale goes full combat mode on another equally skilled practitioner (Mrs.Leaving his old police life behind, he takes a job with Silicon Valley tech genius Terrence Skinner’s new London start up: the Serious Cybernetics Corporation.

So far, Peter is working undercover security at a tech firm whose quirky founder has referenced Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy in all his organizational roles and policies. Some we receive from the authors, some we receive from the publisher, and some we receive through a third party service like Net Galley. the Serious Cybernetic Corporation (SCC), is suspected to be up to no good by the Metropolitan Police (esp. But they'd rather confiscate it for safe keeping, not unlike Professor Postmartin, the great confiscator himself.If you’re a fan of Terry Pratchett or Douglas Adams – don’t panic – you will love Ben Aaronovitch’s imaginative, irreverent and all-round incredible novels.