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The Hugo Award-winning author returns to the futuristic, high-tech Middle East setting of When Gravity Falls in this "major science fiction epic" (Locus). In a world filled with so many puppets, strings tend to get tangled. In this follow-up to the groundbreaking cyberpunk novel When Gravity Fails, the Budayeen is still a very dangerous place, a high-tech Arabian ghetto where power and murder go hand in hand. Marid Audran used to be a low-level street hustler, relying on his wits and independence. Now he's a cop planted in the force by Friedlander Bey, the powerful "godfather" of the Budayeen. Marid is supposed to simply be Bey's envoy into the police, but as a series of grisly murders piles up--children, prostitutes, a fellow officer--he is drawn deeper and deeper into the city's chaos. Would Marid give up all his newfound money and power to get out of this mess? Absolutely. If only he could. But answers are never that easy and choices are never completely one's own in the Budayeen.… (altro)
II° capitolo delle avventure nell'immaginario quartiere arabo del Budayeen per questo eroe/anti-eroe investigatore privato nel primo cap., adesso una sorta di poliziotto/tirapiedi di un potente della città, soprannominato "papà". Di molto inferiore al I° capitolo, resta cmq una lettura gradevole e scorrevole ... un romanzo giallo che di fantascientifico ha (molto) poco ma che si può consigliare sicuramente. ( )
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Children begin by loving their parents: after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them. Oscar Wilde "The Picture of Dorian Gray"
Dedica
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My grandfather, George Conrad Effinger, whom I never knew, was a police officer in the city of Cleveland during the Depression. He was killed in the line of duty. This book is dedicated to his memory, growing fainter now each year in the minds of those peole who did know him, except for his policeman's shield, Badge #374, hung with pride in a station house in Cleveland.
Incipit
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We'd ridden for many days out the coast highway toward Mauretania, the part of Algeria where I'd been born.
Citazioni
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Marriage was something I thought happened only to other people, like fatal traffic accidents.
Ultime parole
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"I should've let you kiss the ground good-bye, Audran, because you're never going to see the city again!"
The Hugo Award-winning author returns to the futuristic, high-tech Middle East setting of When Gravity Falls in this "major science fiction epic" (Locus). In a world filled with so many puppets, strings tend to get tangled. In this follow-up to the groundbreaking cyberpunk novel When Gravity Fails, the Budayeen is still a very dangerous place, a high-tech Arabian ghetto where power and murder go hand in hand. Marid Audran used to be a low-level street hustler, relying on his wits and independence. Now he's a cop planted in the force by Friedlander Bey, the powerful "godfather" of the Budayeen. Marid is supposed to simply be Bey's envoy into the police, but as a series of grisly murders piles up--children, prostitutes, a fellow officer--he is drawn deeper and deeper into the city's chaos. Would Marid give up all his newfound money and power to get out of this mess? Absolutely. If only he could. But answers are never that easy and choices are never completely one's own in the Budayeen.
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Di molto inferiore al I° capitolo, resta cmq una lettura gradevole e scorrevole ... un romanzo giallo che di fantascientifico ha (molto) poco ma che si può consigliare sicuramente. (