#2 - Roland Wong

| November 3, 2013 | 0 Comments

(Whew! Â This is a little late - mostly due to my deciding to work with the colors and inks in Clip Studio, a program I recently purchased. Â Nice program - lots of useful tools - but not the wisest choice I’ve made while laboring under a deadline. Â Also: Photoshop layer folder don’t work in Photoshop Elements, so I had to bounce between two programs to get the template to work right.)

Roland Wong is Cosmetigene’s best salesperson in the Greater Vancouver Archology. Â A man of great charm and charisma, he makes his living selling cosmetic gene enhancements. Â Want eyes that changes color via your mood? Â Looking for tiger-stripe hair or glow-in-the-dark fingernails? Â How about some chlorophyll in the skin to give you that extra bit of pep through the day? Â Cosmetigene has it all, and Roland can sell them to just about anyone.

It’s not a bad life… but Roland misses the days when he worked an entirely different job, as a plainsclothes detective in the GVA Police Force. Â There his charm had been used to coax testimony out of reluctant witnesses, and to ease criminals into confession. Â He’d been good at that job too - perhaps a little too good. Â On a corruption case, he found he’d angered the wrong high-ranking official, and soon found himself out of work.

But his past collides with his present when a routine sale becomes a terrible murder. Â One of Roland’s gene enhancements for a client was altered: instead of giving his client the robin’s-egg-blue skin she wanted, it turned her skin cells into toxin-producing factories, poisoning her from the inside. Â All evidence points to Roland, and his job, reputation, and freedom are on the line… unless he can find the real killer.

Category: 2013, Scifi

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