Title: When gravity fails /
Authors: Effinger, George Alec.
Publisher: Orb,
Year: 2005
Subjects: Revenge Fiction; Psychopaths Fiction; Virtual reality Fiction; Serial murderers Fiction; Implants, Artificial Fiction.; Middle East Fiction.
Abstract: "In a decadent world of cheap pleasures and easy death, Marid Audran 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 Audran has been made an offer he can't refuse." "The two-hundred-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."--Jacket.