num_pages: 453
description: Altered Carbon and The Wind-Up Girl meet Apocalypse Now in this fast-paced intelligent action-driven cyberpunk probing questions of memory identity and the power of narratives. Lin 'The Silent One' Vu is a gangster and sometime private investigator living in Chinese-occupied Hanoi in the steaming paranoid alleyways of the 36 Streets. Born in Vietnam raised in Australia everywhere she is an outsider. Through grit and courage Lin has carved a place for herself in the Vietnamese underworld where Hanoi's crime boss Bao Nguyen is training her to fight and lead. Bao drives her hard; on the streets there are no second chances. Meanwhile the people of Hanoi are succumbing to Fat Victory  a dangerously addictive immersive simulation of the US-Vietnam war. When an Englishman comes to Hanoi on the trail of his friend's murderer Lin's life is turned upside down. She is drawn into the grand conspiracies of the neon gods  of regimes and mega-corporations  as they unleash dangerous new technologies. Lin must confront the immutable moral calculus of unjust wars. She must family country or gang. Blood truth or redemption. No choice is easy on the 36 Streets. 
language: English
title: 36 Streets
publisher: Titan Books