Started reading Greg Rucka’s Perfect Dark: Initial Vector on the train to work today. Got past the prologue and was three pages into Chapter 1 when the train reached my station and I — reluctantly — had to put the book down. Figured I’ll just continue during lunch break, which now couldn’t come any sooner. That’s how tight the book has got me by the balls.

Granted, I know zilch about the game Perfect Dark Zero, of which the book provides a background story. I’m not a gamer (only married to one). Too much color and motion hurt my eyes. Put me in an amusement arcade and watch me get dizzy in a flash. Also, I don’t have the patience to learn step by step the intricate tricks needed to finish a game. For that matter I rather finish a book.

But I’m a fan of Greg Rucka. I haven’t read many Wonder Woman books, but the one I like best so far is The Hiketeia, from 2002, which he penned. His Punisher and Gotham Central runs are likewise excellent comics. It was actually in Gotham Central that I got introduced to his work.

At the center of Perfect Dark: Initial Vector are the “hypercorporations” — business organizations so big and powerful they practically own countries. Of course there are those who seek to challenge them, and at Chapter 1 I was introduced to one of them — a mole inside dataDyne, the biggest hypercorporation of them all. And because game freaks have a hard-on for kickass heroines, a female ex-bounty hunter with an ax to grind against dataDyne will soon come into the picture, or so the blurb says.

Delicious sci-fi stuff, in short.

Really looking forward to more time with Perfect Dark: Initial Vector. Seems like it’ll be my companion during my solitary train rides and lunch breaks for the next week or so.