"Morehouse's well-done first novel combines traditional cyberpunk and hard-boiled detective elements with a bit of romance, a dash of parody, and some truly whacked out theology to create an entertaining science-fiction adventure. Deidre McMannus is a disgraced former cop now scratching out a life on the fringes of society as a private eye. She lives in a world where virtually everyone is LINKed, tied into a late twenty-first century equivalent of the WWW, through wetware installed in their skulls. Most of the world's major nations, including the U.S., are theocracies, and the use of the LINK is limited to people who are members of an established church. This religious revival came about after angels began to appear on the LINK and proclaim God's message. Sometime later, Daniel Fitzpatrick, Diedre's partner in the NYPD, for reasons unknown even to himself, went crazy while on duty and assissinated the Pope who was visiting New York. Deirde, caught in the backwash from that crime, soon found herself excommunicated from the Catholic Church and exiled from the LINK. Now she has been recruited by Michael Angelucci, a strangely charismatic NYPD officer who wants her to help him discredit the LINK-angels. The problem is, though, that much of the evidence implies that the LINK-angels may indeed be the real thing and that Lieutenant Angelucci may not be entirely human either. Archangel Protocol features a variety of lovely little touches. When McMannus gets really depressed she reaches into the bottom drawer of her desk, not for the traditional bottle of whiskey, but for a bent up romance novel. She has a series of run ins with a rather terrifying mafia type named Morningstar and eventually discovers that some of her most valuable allies are Hassidic terrorists. And then there's the rather odd sex scene in the belfry.... This is an excellent first novel from a writer who's definitely worth keeping an eye on."