Pages: 480 pages
ISBN: 0756411262
Publisher: DAW Books Inc.
Publication Date: October 6, 2015

It’s 2053, and the US has long since genetically engineered life successfully. “Moreaus,” humanoid animal hybrids, and “frankensteins,” genetically manipulated humans, live as second-class citizens. The Moreau Quartet: Volume Two brings together two of S. Andrew Swann’s novels set in the Moreau universe.

Emperors of the Twilight: Evi Isham is a frankenstein—the next step beyond human, her physiology bioengineered to make her the best Agency special operative in the business. When she’s forced to go on the run from an unidentified hit team ready to destroy a skyscraper just to take her out, Evi’s only hope is to evade her stalkers long enough to make contact with her superiors. But she soon discovers that even the Agency may not be able to save her.

Specters of the Dawn: A moreau of rabbit stock, Angelica “Angel” Lopez is the last survivor of a Cleveland street gang. A tough street fighter in search of a haven, she’s come to “tolerant” San Francisco only to find that even the old-fashioned kind of humans aren’t keen on moreaus. Still, she thinks she’s found a home and safety until Byron the fox barges into her life, dragging her into the deadly underground of information-peddling, and a series of confrontations that may blow not just San Francisco but the whole planet wide open.

An engaging, entertaining thriller with an exotic cast of characters, in an unfortunately all too plausible repressive future.
—Science Fiction Chronicle

The Moreau Quartet is a truly impressive work of near-future science fiction.

R. A. McCandless, Amazon Reader