Titanium Noir

Cal Sounder is a police detective who handles delicate cases. When he is sent to a homicide in a local apartment building, he expects an ordinary job. The victim, Roddy Tebbit, seems like an unremarkable technology worker, but he stands more than seven feet tall. Although he looks no older than thirty, he is ninety-one years old, which marks him as a Titan, one of the genetically altered elite of a dystopian society set in the near future.

Only a few thousand Titans exist worldwide. Their existence traces back to Stefan Tonfamecasca and T7, a controversial genetic therapy that lifted his family to a position of near-divine power. T7 transforms ordinary people into beings who live almost indefinitely and grow to enormous size, matching the extravagant, unattainable lives they lead. The death of a Titan makes headlines, but the idea of one being murdered seems almost unthinkable.

Modified magnates are exactly the kind of people Cal knows best. His former girlfriend, Athena, is also a Titan, and she is Stefan's daughter and the heir to the vast Tonfamecasca fortune. As the investigation gains momentum, Cal begins to untangle the knotted threads of a case that was supposed to be simple, and he finds himself following a crime with roots reaching deep into the darkest corners of the world.