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Santiago by Mike Resnick

The Songbird is a bounty hunter who is hunting a pirate/criminal known as Santiago. He goes from contact to contact trying to find information leading to Santiago, and meets a lot of colorful characters including the Swagman, a thief, Virtue MacKenzie, a journalist with no ethics, and other competing bounty hunters and well as other petty criminals and thieves. But when he finally finds Santiago, he realizes that Santiago is actually a good person and he fights to defend him from a particularly sinister bounty hunter named the Angel.


Plot & Themes
Tone of book - cynical or dry-wit
FANTASY or SCIENCE FICTION? - science fiction story
Spying & Investigations Yes
What is main char. doing? - finding a killer (criminal)
Descript. of chases or violence - 30 %
planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 30 %
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 20 %
Descript. of society, phenomena (tech), places - 20 %

Main Character
Identity: - Male
Profession/status:
Age: - 40's-50's
Really unusual traits?

Setting
A substantial portion of this book takes place on a non-Earth planetary body: - humans in a futuristic society
Planet outside solar system? Yes

Writing Style
Accounts of torture and death? - moderately detailed references to deaths
scientific jargon? (SF only) - a moderate amount of scientific explanation
How much dialogue? - mostly dialog
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