History Literature / Limit

Meanwhile in China, PrivateDetective [[AwesomeMcCoolName Owen Jericho]] gets hired to find his client's daughter, Chen "Yoyo" Yuyun, a {{cyber|Punk}}-[[LaResistance dissident]]. Owen soon discovers that Yoyo had to go into hiding because she accidentally stumbled over something she was not meant to see. Now the [[{{Determinator}} highly dangerous]], {{psycho|ForHire}}pathic [[ProfessionalKiller hitman]] Kenny Xin is close on her and Owen's heels...

* PrivateDetective: [[AwesomeMcCoolName Owen Jericho]] is hired to find a missing person.

%%* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters

* MohsScaleOfScienceFictionHardness: Hard. Space travel is difficult and expensive; everyone feels radiated extreme heat, etc.

* TheGreatPoliticsMessUp: At one point, an InfoDump is given regarding the oil industry and its slow decline from ThePresentDay to 2025. The disastrous [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deepwater_Horizon_oil_spill 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico]] would neatly have fitted in there, but alas, it happened one year after the book's publishing.

Meanwhile in China, PrivateDetective [[AwesomeMcCoolName Owen Jericho]] gets hired to find his client's daughter, Chen "Yoyo" Yuyun, a [[CyberPunk cyber]]-[[LaResistance dissident]]. Owen soon discovers that Yoyo had to go into hiding because she accidentally stumbled over something she was not meant to see. Now the [[TheDeterminator highly dangerous]], [[PsychoForHire psychopathic]] [[ProfessionalKiller hitman]] Kenny Xin is close on her and Owen's heels...

* BlackGuyDiesFirst: The first to be killed by TheMole is not only black by ethnicity but his ''name'' is Black.

%%* TheDeterminator: Kenny Xin.

* EverythingIsBigInTexas: Chuck Donoghue fits the [[TheSimpsons rich Texan]] stereotype to a T, except that he isn't in the oil business.

%%* ManBehindTheMan: [[spoiler:Gerald Palstein.]]

* MagicalNativeAmerican: Loreena Keowa, IntrepidReporter for a magazine called ''Greenwatch'', which covers environmental themes. Her appearance can be described as Disney/{{Pocahontas}} in a business suit.

* HeroicAlbino: Heidrun Ögi. [[HandWave In 2025 a skin cream has been developed which renders her less sensitive to sun light]].

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Contains examples of:

* TheNewRussia: Oleg Rogaschow is one of those newly-rich industrialists from post-communist Russia.

* [[spoiler: PunchClockVillain: When Kenny Xin realizes that his client's cover has been blown and his cause is lost, what does he do? He simply declares their contract to be expired and announces that he will ''take a holiday''.]]

* TheCameo: [[spoiler: Music/DavidBowie!]]

* ChinaTakesOverTheWorld: China of the year 2025 is [[ToGetRichIsGlorious much like today]], only more CyberPunk-ish and competing with the USA over helium-3 mining sides on the moon.

* MagicalNativeAmerican: Loreena Keowa, IntrepidReporter for a magazine called ''Greenwatch'', which covers environmental themes. Her appearance can be described as {{Pocahontas}} in a business suit.

* MagicalNativeAmerican: Loreena Keowa, IntrepidReporter for a magazine called ''Greenwatch'', which covers environmental themes. Her appearance can be described as {{Pocahontas}} in a [[HotChickInABadassSuit business suit]].

* TheCameo: [[spoiler: DavidBowie!]]

* MonumentalBattle: On the top levels of the UsefulNotes/{{Shanghai}} [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghai_World_Financial_Center World Financial Center]], in the halls of the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pergamon_Museum Pergamon Museum]] in {{Berlin}}, and in Orley's gigantic moon hotel. [[spoiler: The latter gets [[MonumentalDamage completely destroyed]] in the process.]]

%%* ZeroGSpot

%%* DoorStopper

* BlackGuyDiesFirst: The first to be killed by TheMole is not only black by ethnicity, also his ''name'' is Black.

* CorruptCorporateExecutive: While most corporate executives in this story seem to be quite decent people, some are not.

* DarkAndTroubledPast: Especially Chen Hongbing [[spoiler:and Tian Tu.]]

* EverythingIsBigInTexas: Chuck Donoghue fits the [[TheSimpsons rich Texan]] stereotype to a T, only that he isn't in the oil business.

* MagicalNativeAmerican: Loreena Keowa, IntrepidReporter for a magazine called ''Greenwatch'', which covers environmental themes. Her appearance can basically be described as {{Pocahontas}} in a [[HotChickInABadassSuit business suit]].
* ManBehindTheMan: [[spoiler:Gerald Palstein.]]

* MohsScaleOfScienceFictionHardness: ''Quite'' hard.

* MultinationalTeam: The employees of ''Orley Industries''. The travel group to the moon may also count.

* PrivateDetective: [[AwesomeMcCoolName Owen Jericho]].

* TheRevolutionWillNotBeVilified: Averted. Although Julian Orley's plans for revolutionizing the energy industry via the worthwhile mining of helium-3 [[GreenAesop get to be portrayed as a generally good thing]], the issue of thousands of employees of the oil industry losing their jobs as a result is part of the story.

* SpaceElevator: The whole premise of the novel.

The year is 2025. Man has returned to the moon and started mining helium-3, an isotope needed for running fusion reactors. But as you can imagine, shipping stuff to and from the moon is quite expensive, meaning that mankind is nevertheless still far away from not having to rely on fossil fuels at all anymore. Julian Orley, visionary and founder of ''[[MegaCorp Orley Industries]]'', wants to change this by means of a SpaceElevator. Also, he wants to establish moon tourism. To this end he gives a grand tour through his space and moon facilities for a hand-picked group of potential investors, [[FictionFiveHundred super-rich people]] from all around the world. At first, everything goes as planned, with everyone having a splendid time. But soon, trouble starts to crop up...

* AnyoneCanDie

* CoolCar: Owen's one can even change colours.

* CyberPunk

* DefectiveDetective: Owen Jericho.
* TheDeterminator: Kenny Xin.
* DoorStopper
* TheDragon: Kenny Xin.
* DysfunctionJunction

* GeniusBruiser: Daxiong.

* GoldenGun: Carl Hanna possesses one.
* HannibalLecture: Animal Ma does this in the beginning.
** ShutUpHannibal: Owen Jericho's reaction.

* LaResistance: Yoyo and her friends.
* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters

* MegaCorp: ''Orley Industries''.

* TheMole: [[spoiler: More than one, actually.]]

* {{Omniglot}}: Owen Jericho.

* PsychoForHire: Kenny Xin.

* ZeroGSpot

* MeLoveYouLongTime: Yoyo (Chinese) and Owen (English). And he was already married to a Chinese woman before that.

Meanwhile in China, PrivateDetective [[AwesomeMcCoolName Owen Jericho]] gets hired to find his client's daughter, Chen "Yoyo" Yuyun, a [[CyberPunk cyber]]-[[LaResistance dissident]]. Owen soon discovers that Yoyo had to go into hiding because she accidentally stumbled over something she was not meant to see. Now the [[TheDeterminator highly dangerous]], [[PsychoForHire psychopathic]] [[CareerKillers hitman]] Kenny Xin is close on her and Owen's heels...

* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler: Kenny Xin, the PsychoForHire and CareerKiller. The last time he appears in a scene, he isn't even there in person, just to be heard via phone. In his last line of dialogue, he says that all the recent events have quite exhausted him, and he considers taking a holiday...]]

* MonumentalBattle: On the top levels of the {{Shanghai}} [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghai_World_Financial_Center World Financial Center]], in the halls of the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pergamon_Museum Pergamon Museum]] in {{Berlin}}, and in Orley's gigantic moon hotel. [[spoiler: The latter gets [[MonumentalDamage completely destroyed]] in the process.]]

* TheGreatPoliticsMessUp: At one point, an InfoDump is given regarding the oil industry and its slow decline from ThePresentDay to 2025. The disastrous [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deepwater_Horizon_oil_spill 2010 oil spill in the Golf of Mexico]] would neatly have fitted in there, but alas, it happened one year after the book's publishing.

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: The character of Julian Orley is quite obviously based on Richard Branson.

** The novel has another obvious ShoutOut in Finn O'Keefe being an actor who got famous by playing ''PerryRhodan''.

* ZeroGSpot

* ShoutOut: Julian Orley is an avid ScienceFiction fan, resulting in numerous in-universe shout outs to famous Sci-Fi works like ''{{ptitleh3elkyxdypyw}}'' and ''Franchise/StarTrek'' within the facilities he built in space and on the moon.

* ShoutOut: Julian Orley is an avid ScienceFiction fan, resulting in numerous in-universe shout outs to famous Sci-Fi works like ''{{ptitleh3elkyxdypyw}}'' and ''StarTrek'' within the facilities he built in space and on the moon.

The year is 2025. Man has returned to the moon and started mining helium-3, an isotope needed for running fusion reactors. But as you can imagine, shipping stuff to and from the moon is quite expensive, meaning that mankind is nevertheless still far away from not having to rely on fossil fuels at all anymore. Julian Orley, visionary and founder of ''[[MegaCorp Orley Industries]]'', wants to change this by means of a SpaceElevator. Also, he wants to establish moon tourism. For this ends, he gives a grand tour through his space and moon facilities for a hand-picked group of potential investors, [[FictionFiveHundred super-rich people]] from all around the world. At first, everything goes as planned, with everyone having a splendid time. But soon, trouble starts to crop up...

Meanwhile in China, PrivateDetective [[AwesomeMcCoolName Owen Jericho]] gets hired to find his client's daughter, Chen "Yoyo" Yuyun, a [[CyberPunk cyber]]-[[LaResistance dissident]]. Owen soon discovers that Yoyo had to go into hiding because she did accidentally stumble over something she was not meant to see. Now the [[TheDeterminator highly dangerous]], [[PsychoForHire psychopathic]] [[CareerKillers hitman]] Kenny Xin is close on her and Owen's heels...

* MagicalNativeAmerican: Loreena Keowa, IntrepidReporter for a magazine called ''Greenwatch'', which is covering environmental themes. Her appearance can basically be described as {{Pocahontas}} in a [[HotChickInABadassSuit business suit]].

* ShoutOut: Julian Orley is an avid ScienceFiction fan, resulting in numerous in-universe shout outs to famous Sci-Fi works like ''{{ptitleh3elkyxdypyw}}'' and ''StarTrek'' within the facilities he did build in space and on the moon.

* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler: Kenny Xin, the PsychoForHire and CareerKiller. The last time he appears in a scene, he isn't even there in person, just to be heard via phone. In his last line of dialogue, he says that all the recent events have exhausted him quite, and he considers taking a holiday...]]

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Julian Orley is quite obviously based on Richard Branson.

* PrivateDetective: [[AwesomeMcCoolName Owen Jericho]]

-> You went beyond all limits, [[spoiler:Gerald]].