Kat and Mouse, Guns For Hire [Kindle Edition]

Abner Senires (Author)

Book Description

COLLECTING THE ENTIRE "FIRST SEASON" OF THE WEB FICTION SERIAL.

2042. Bay City, California Free State.

Kat and Mouse are ronin--street mercenaries--who like cake runs. Simple jobs with quick and large payouts.

That's what these were supposed to be. Cake runs.

But when the Duo sign on, they suddenly find themselves targeted by a biker gang, a team of corporate commandos, a cybernetically-enhanced special ops agent, a stalker, a band of kidnappers, and a Japanese crime syndicate.

And they all want the Duo out of the way. Permanently.

Now these sassy sisters-in-arms must survive the onslaught and still get the jobs done. Because in the Biz, it's get paid or get dead.

As usual, Kat and Mouse are going to do things their way.

Heaven help Bay City.

Product Details

• File Size: 514 KB
• Print Length: 316 pages
• Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
• Language: English
• ASIN: B004Y5H7V2
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• X-Ray: Not Enabled
• Lending: Enabled
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #790,180 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars A roller coaster ride of awesome! May 24, 2011

By Oceanblue

Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase

Kat and Mouse: Guns for Hire - A collection of the "first season" of the popular web serial.

The description of the work is true to the story. Abner Senires doesn't hide anything from his readers. The author does a good job of creating a believable futuristic world. The characters are lovable but violent. Kind of like Bruce Willis in Die Hard, always shooting and blowing things up, but you still root for him.

Kat and Mouse are the baddest ladies in the ronin business. They care about making money, so no job is too small or too difficult as long as they get paid. Mr. Senires mixes in a good batch of humor with his tales of guns, biomods, treachery and deceit. My favorite character is Specs.

The pacing is fast, edge-of-your-seat fast. And if you're looking for a slow read you're going to get left behind and turned into aerodyne bait. I recommend forcing your eyes to move as quickly as possible. There were times that I became so lost in the story that I thought that I might actually get shot or blown up if I didn't read faster.

I don't think this is an instant classic or a work that is going to be discussed in book clubs. But I don't think that's the point. If you want to have fun and find yourself immersed in a shoot 'em up story with fun characters then I would highly recommend this for you.

I'm rating this as high as I possibly can.

5.0 out of 5 stars Fast paced hard boiled stories in a cyberpunk setting. Starts good and keeps getting better. April 11, 2012

By para

Format:Kindle Edition

Kat and Mouse, Guns for Hire focuses on a pair of street mercenaries (also referred to as ronin) who take delivery and escort jobs through areas wiser, or at least less dangerous, people avoid. Kat's a self labeled Amazon and firearms expert; her partner Mouse a small woman who specializes in "all things pointy." The stories are related via Kat in first person narrative.

Guns for Hire a collection of the "first season" of a web serial. As such, the individual segments (chapters) are structured like episodes of a tv series - largely stand alone, but with overarching elements and plots that slowly develop over the season. It works very well for the material and keeps the action moving at a nice, quick speed. Reading this as a collection has the drawback that establishing prose, such as Kat introducing herself each episode, becomes repetitive and slightly tiresome, but it's not excessive so can be easily overlooked.

There's a conversational tone to these tales which helps give a sense of Kat's personality and world view. She's not just relating events to us, she's telling stories about things that effected her and relates them appropriately.

Despite the somewhat cutesy name this series is on the edgier side. The world Kat and Mouse operate in is dangerous, the clients have secrets and there's no such thing as a "cake run." One of the great things about this book was the well developed supporting cast, who rose above the roles they fill and added a significant amount of depth to the larger story threaded throughout the season. Another highlight is the way the author integrates his worldbuilding elements. Terms, geography and social structure are all absorbed seamlessly while reading.

I was fully invested by the end and am looking forward to further adventures.

Highly recommended.

4.0 out of 5 stars Kat and Mouse: Guns for Hire. An excellent read July 14, 2011

By CobraMisfit

Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase

Kat and Mouse: Guns for Hire by Abner Senires is an easy, exciting read. The writing is crisp and the action is almost constant. This being a collection of the first "season" of the hit online series, each chapter can be viewed as an independent short story, however there are several main plot arcs that surface along the way. The characters are drawn well and Senires does a great job adding just enough "bwa-ha-ha" to the "bang-pow." Highly recommended for anyone looking to lose themselves in a futuristic street war with two of the best ronin in the Biz.

More About the Author

Fed on a steady diet of SF/Fantasy novels, genre movies and television, videogames, comic books, Saturday morning cartoons, anime and manga, and role-playing games, Abner Senires eventually grew up into a strange little brown man.

He writes science fiction/fantasy pulp adventure and has been published in Anotherealm, Neverary, Pulp and Dagger, and millenniumSHIFT, among others.

He is the writer and creator of the cyberpunk action-adventure webfiction serial KAT AND MOUSE: GUNS FOR HIRE.

He confesses to being a SF/Fantasy/movie/genre TV/comic book/anime/manga fan.

He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife and a pair of rambunctious cats.