The Puppet Master

Future technology gives criminals new ways to steal and murder then cover their tracks. Life is no easier for private eye Martti Seppanen in a Los Angeles Phillip Marlowe wouldn't recognize. A murder weapon may be a bioengineered disease, the murderer may be someone who can control other people mentally, and the victim may be someone whose legal status as a human is in limbo and whose existence is a government secret. Martti Seppanen, a private detective in a futuristic Los Angeles, finds himself taking on a bizarre murder case in which the victim whose status as human is in question, the weapon is a bioengineered disease, and the killer uses mental powers to control others. Original.