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The Syndic operated as a sort of gigantic protective league in what had once been the states east of the Mississippi. Humanity had never had it so good; there was plenty of money, and people were expected to have fun with it. Moral inhibitions had gone the way of the horse: most girls were delightfully amenable, and polo was played in jeeps with 50-caliber machine guns. The hopelessly corrupt old North American Government had been driven literally into the sea but made occasional piratical forays onto the mainland from bases on the islands and coastal fringes of a ruined and savage Europe. West of the Mississippi lay Mob Territory, and in spite of treaties and frequent state visits, it was known that the Mobsters coveted the produtivity and complacency that marked life under The Syndic. Fat, happy, and hedonistic, The Syndic was unprepared to face the realities of impending warfare with the Government, and when a wave of assassinations broke out in New York, it was belatedly decided to take action. Young Charles Orsino, polo-playing scion of one of the ruling families, volunteered for a spying assignment. Here begins one of the most fantastic adventures ever to involve brain washing, witchcraft, and murder in a plot that ranges from Druidical rites to old-fashioned twenty-first-century romance.
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- PublisherAvon
- Publication date1978
- ISBN 10 0722153325
- ISBN 13 9780722153321
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages160
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Paperback: 7" x 4¼". Condition: Very Good: Light signs of wear. Cover Art: Uncredited (illustrator). 1968 Edition. © 1953: A stand-alone novel by C M Kornbluth. 3rd printing of 1968 edition:- Synopsis: The Government of North America has been pushed into the sea but survives, as a strict military dictatorship, on the west coast of Ireland. The permissive, happy but doomed Syndic rules the East Of the United States - the West is Mob territory. Two Syndic agents, Charles Orsino and Lee Falcaro, infiltrate the government and learn the frightening truth from the outside world - that there are plans to smash the Syndic for ever:- Review(s): 'The Syndic' is C M Kornbluth's most stunning and prophetic novel. It is a science fiction classic that ranks alongside George Orwell's 1984 as a terrifying vision of the future" / "An original piece of thinking, which passage of time has sharpened" - Kingsley Amis / "Kornbluth's most brilliant and fascinating work" - Edmund Crispin:- (original cost £0.85). Seller Inventory # 11.004.00157
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London: Sphere Books 1978 Third Sphere Paperback Printing ISBN 0-7221-5332-5, London, 1978
ISBN 10: 0722153325
ISBN 13: 9780722153321
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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. VG. Moderate edgewear, moderate age-toning mostly to edges and prelims, otherwise a solid copy, very clean throughout. Cover art by Peter Jones. Seller Inventory # 16870
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