When gravity fails
By: George Alec Effinger.
Edition: 1st Orb ed.
Publisher: Orb
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9780765313584
Subjects: Revenge -- Fiction.; Psychopaths -- Fiction.; Virtual reality -- Fiction.; Serial murderers -- Fiction.; Implants, Artificial -- Fiction.; Middle East -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "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.
Notes: "A Tom Doherty Associates book."