TY  - BOOK
AU  - Michel,Lincoln
TI  - The body scout: a novel 
SN  - 9780316628723
PY  - 2021///
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Orbit, Hachette Book Group
KW  - Baseball scouts
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Cyborgs
KW  - Murder
KW  - Investigation
KW  - Genetic engineering
KW  - Science fiction
KW  - lcgft
N2  - "Kobo has some problems. His cybernetics are a decade out of date, he's got a pair of twin sister loan sharks knocking on his door, and his work scouting for a baseball league run by pharmaceutical companies is about to go belly-up. Things couldn't get much worse. Then his childhood best friend--Monsanto Mets slugger J.J. Zunz--is murdered at home plate. Determined to find the killer, Kobo plunges into the dark corners and glittering cloud condos of a world ravaged by climate change and repeat pandemics, and where genetic editing and advanced drugs mean you can have any body you want--as long as you can afford it. But even among the philosophical Neanderthals, zootech weapons, and genetically modified CEOs, there's a curveball he never could have called"--
ER  -