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A gun-toting urban professional with a weakness for internet discussion groups, a chemistry student turned online drug dealer, a pair of slacker post-grads, a federal agent on the take, a cadre of well-armed mercenaries, an unstoppable hitman, and a gang of trigger-happy young Taoists. This unlikely group is brought together by their quest for the meaning of life, originally discovered in the remote highlands of South America by an infamous 19th-century explorer but now said to be concealed in the ...
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A gun-toting urban professional with a weakness for internet discussion groups, a chemistry student turned online drug dealer, a pair of slacker post-grads, a federal agent on the take, a cadre of well-armed mercenaries, an unstoppable hitman, and a gang of trigger-happy young Taoists. This unlikely group is brought together by their quest for the meaning of life, originally discovered in the remote highlands of South America by an infamous 19th-century explorer but now said to be concealed in the inaccessible spaces of a hidden website on the perimeters of a shadow internet. But something soon becomes clear—there are others who will stop at nothing to keep the truth hidden.
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A debut novel from British author Fuchs involving guns, blackmail, computers, unfathomable corruption and angry young Taoists, all part of a bloody quest for a mysterious manuscript. The manuscript in question is a document-probably apocryphal-written by Sir Richard Burton, the 19th-century adventurer, translator, eroticist and Renaissance man. It seems that in a brief sojourn to South America in the 1860s, he just might have come across a remote tribal culture that had answers to all the Major Philosophical and Theological Questions that have troubled humans since ancient times, including Does God exist? and What's the meaning of life? While evidence suggests that Sir Richard's wife burned all of his manuscripts after his death, rumors swirl that this one important work escaped the conflagration and has recently been posted on the internet, buried deep-so deep that Google can scarcely reach it (under "The meaning of Life")-within the newsgroup alt.religion.taoism.angry. The novel focuses on the attempts of numerous individuals to recover the manuscript: Miles Darken, a computer geek with mystical propensities; his former girlfriend Dana, who works for a professor trying to recover the manuscript; Celeste Browning, employed by Global Acumen, a mysterious organization that monitors the movement of sensitive information over the Internet; FreeBSD, computer whiz and drug dealer; and The Cleaner, a sociopathic killer willing to assassinate anyone who gets in his way. It turns out that the Angry Young Taoists do in fact exist, and they live up to their name. Without a proverbial scorecard, it becomes difficult to separate one bloody group from another. The carnage mounts as they increase theintensity of the search. Fuchs seems to operate on the narrative principle of "when in doubt, put in a firefight." It becomes clear that the manuscript is not important, just the action in trying to acquire it. Any comparison to a bestseller involving a certain Code is purely coincidental.
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"Clever and engaging."  —Times Literary Supplement

"All the usual suspects: hitmen, shadowy 'intelligence' agents, and drug dealers . . . emerges as a high-energy, enthusiastic yarn."  —Dr. Ian Hocking, Pulp.net

"Chases, gun battles, gangsters, and computers. This man knows his craft . . . There is insight behind the action."  —Shameless Words

"Breathless, cyber-techno thriller . . . a great novel!"  —Flavourpill, London

"High philosophical ambitions."  —ComputerWeekly

"A very powerful piece of work. Some writers leave you thinking they know things we ordinar mortals don't have access to."  —Crème de la Crime

"A thriller that examines the power of the internet and the implications for those who are manipulated by it."  —Stuff magazine

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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780330452571
  • Publisher: Pan Macmillan
  • Publication date: 4/28/2008
  • Series: Macmillan New Writing Series
  • Pages: 304
  • Product dimensions: 5.10 (w) x 7.70 (h) x 0.90 (d)

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Michael Stephen Fuchs is the author of Pandora's Sisters.
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