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A Fire in the Sun

By: George Alec Effinger
Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
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Summary

Marid Audran has become everything he once despised. Not so long ago, he was a hustler in the Budayeen, an Arabian ghetto in a Balkanized future Earth. Back then, as often as not, he didn't have the money to buy himself a drink. But he had his independence. Now Marid works for Friedlander Bey, "godfather" of the Budayeen, a man whose power stretches across a shattered, crumbling world.

During the day, Marid is a policemanand Bey's personal envoy to the police. His new position has brought him money and power which he would abandon in a moment if he could return to a life of neither owning nor being owned. Which, unfortunately, isn't one of his options.It's also not an issue. For something dark is afoot. Something that is sending the city into chaos.

Helping a child-mutilator to avoid arrest. Sending a killer to murder Marid's partner. Murdering prostitutes and savaging their remains. Signs point to the hand of Abu Adil - the one man in the city whose power rivals Friedlander Bey's. Whatever happens next, it's not going to be good news for Marid Audran.
©1989 George Alec Effinger (P)2011 Audible, Inc.
Crime Fiction Cyberpunk Science Fiction Fiction City
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Meh... Ok but won't bother with the next

These books are OK. The stories are semi interesting, if a little fat fetched, but there's not enough in them for me to feel attached to the characters.
I've no desire to listen to the next one.

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