A Fire in the Sun

Effinger, George

ISBN 10: 0385263244 / ISBN 13: 9780385263245

Published by Doubleday, 1989

About this Item

First Edition stated. Very Good text, minor to light reading wear to text and dust jacket. Minor shelf bumping to dust jacket edges. Additional photos on request. US orders shipped via US Mail. International orders shipped via DHL. Additional postage may be required on oversize books and sets. NO prison orders.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Fire in the Sun
• Publisher: Doubleday
• Publication Date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0385263244
• ISBN 13: 9780385263245
• Binding: hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Weight: 16 ounces

About this title

Synopsis

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 policeman ¦and 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 riva

About the Author

A winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards, GEORGE ALEC EFFINGER was the author of What Entropy Means to Me, Schrodinger's Kitten, and the "Marid Audrian" sequence that begins with When Gravity Fails. He died in 2002.