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When Gravity Fails

  • 284 pages · about 5 hours
  • First published 1987
  • 10 editions

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1 About this book

In a decadent world of cheap pleasures and easy death, Marid Audran has kept his independence and his identity the hard way. Still, like everything else in the Budayeen, he is available ...for a price. For a new kind of killer roams the streets of the decadent Arabic 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 crime in the Budayeen has enlisted Marid as his instrument of vengeance. But first Marid must undergo the most sophisticated of surgical implants before he dares to stop a killer with the powers of every psychopath since the beginning of time... Wry, savage and unforgettable.

Good for readers who want: science fiction and a thriller.

  • Serial murderers
  • Serial murders
  • Middle east
  • Science fiction
  • Thrillers
  • Psychopaths
  • Revenge
  • Virtual reality

2 About George Alec Effinger

1947–2002

George Alec Effinger (January 10, 1947 – April 27, 2002) was an American science fiction author, born in Cleveland, Ohio.

Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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