The Graveyard Game (The Company) by Kage Baker - Baker got it back

Sin exists, says Joseph, an immortal cyborg agent employed by Dr. Zeus, Inc., and in this fourth novel of Kage Bakers Company series, it certainly does. The Graveyard Game follows agents Joseph and Lewis as they try to find their missing friend Mendoza, whos been exiled to the Back Way Back as punishment for anti-Company activities.

Dr. Zeus, a time-travel corporation, created cyborgs to selectively preserve artifacts from the past for the edification of the 24th century, when the Company exists. But as the centuries go by for the agents, they hear strange rumors of a silence in the year 2355. Ominously, cyborgs who try to investigate disappear forever, hidden away or shut down by Dr. Zeus.

Joseph and Lewis become obsessed with finding Mendoza, and along the way, they uncover evidence of bizarre and dangerous Company deeds. Joseph finds strange underground holding cells, with retired agents in vats of preserving fluid. Meanwhile, Lewis researches the activities of Edward Alton Bell-Fairfax, the odd mortal who was with Mendoza when she disappeared. The two get together to discuss their disheartening quest in present-day Ghirardelli Square. Cyborgs get stoned on chocolate, and they order round after round of hot cocoa, even snorting the stuff, until a Company security tech finds them:

On the floor between their respective briefcases was a souvenir bag stuffed with boxes of chocolate cable cars, and the table was littered with foil wrappers from the chocolate they had already consumed.... The security tech scanned them and recoiled slightly at the level of Theobromos in their systems. He surveyed the litter of foil wrappers and empty cups, regarded the cocoa powder in Josephs beard, and sighed. Two old professionals on a sloppy bender. The Graveyard Game, the best and darkest Company novel yet, showcases Kage Bakers smart, witty style. She teases readers with enough evidence of Company nastiness to make us root for the sometimes morally shifty cyborgs, while continuing to further the substantial plot. Its an extremely satisfying chapter in an excellent science fiction series, one that sets the stage for the confrontation to come. --Therese Littleton

Baker got it back
I have to say that Kage Baker finally got the skill back with this 4th novel. I was completely roped in after reading In the Garden of Iden, but I found Sky Coyote immensely disappointing. After about 8 years, I bought Mendoza in Hollywood on a whim and decided it had an interesting, entertaining feel to it, even if it was painfully slow a few times. It was enough to entice me to buy The Graveyard Game and I must say Wow! I am so relieved to see this series picking up again! I was addicted to her story again like I haven't been since #1.
If you're toying with whether or not you should continue the series after #3, do buy this one and try it out! I wasn't upset like the other reviewers that Mendoza wasn't found because I can plainly see that Baker's got plenty more books to come in the series.
There's definitely a few crazy twists and we find out a lot more about the Company. If it weren't drug out a bit, it wouldn't be suspenseful and interesting, right?
I loved this book and I'm definitely reading on!

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