num_pages: 200
description: Since he assassinated the Nowhere Man Vincent Prague hasn't been the same haunted by the ontological impossibility of the kill. His celebrity status has skyrocketed however and everybody wants a piece of him. The MAP (Ministry of Applied Pressure) promotes him to Anvil-in-Chief the catbird's seat of special agents. Under the so-stupid-it's-genius alias of Vincent Codename Prague he works a case that leads him to the Former Czech Republik's Prague a dark cirque du city where androids run wild femme fatales chronically manhandle him and a mad chef named Doktor Teufelsdrckh has created a Hitler/Keats/Daikaiju hybrid that would make Frankenstein's monster sing like a Von Trapp . . . In an overtechnologized world of constant reckoning all Vincent has are his wits his weapons and a briefcase full of replaceable extremities to crack a mysterious code that he soon discovers resides within himself.This novel is from the wild edge of science fiction in the tradition of Philip K. Dick's Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch --fast smart funny and full of a scarily plausible vision of just how weird things could get if we take our biological fate into our own hands. Kim Stanley Robinson  Nebula Hugo Locus BSFA and John W. Campbell Award-winning authorThis intense mixture of giddy activity cyberpunk essences avant fusion and social satire may make your head spin at an accelerated rate. Actual brain damage is unlikely in most cases. John Shirley  Bram Stoker Award-winning author Codename Prague is a thrill-a-minute combination of James Bond Robert Ludlum and cyberpunk set in a dangerous erotic and not-as-distant-as-you'd-wish future. Mike Resnick  Nebula and Hugo Award-winning author of 100 novels collections anothologies and nonfiction booksWho IS this guy? Pat Cadigan  Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning author
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title: Codename Prague
publisher: Raw Dog Screaming Press