Author: George Alec Effinger
Year: 1986
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Science fiction, Mystery, Thriller, Detective, Cyberpunk
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9780765313584
0765313588 |
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In a decadent world of cheap pleasures and easy death, Marid Audrian has kept his independence the hard way. Still, like everything else in the Budayeen, he's available...for a price.
For a new kind of killer roams the streets of the Arab ghetto, a madman whose bootlegged personality cartridges range from a sinister James Bond to a sadistic disemboweler named Khan. And Marid Audrian has been made an offer he can't refuse.
The 200-year-old "godfather" of the Budayeen's underworld has enlisted Marid as his instrument of vengeance. But first Marid must undergo the most sophisticated of surgical implants before he dares to confront a killer who carries the power of every psychopath since the beginning of time.
Wry, savage, and unignorable,
was hailed as a classic by Effinger's fellow SF writers on its original publication in 1987, and the sequence of "Marid Audrian" novels it begins were the culmination of his career.
This book is part of the "Marîd Audran" series. Here are some other books from this series:
 | "The Exile Kiss"
First published in 1991
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 | "A Fire in the Sun"
First published in 1990
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