A Fire in the Sun

by George Alec Effinger

Overview

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 rivals Friedlander Bey's. Whatever happens next, it's not going to be good news for Marid Audran…

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780765313591
Publisher:	Tor Publishing Group
Publication date:	02/21/2006
Series:	The Audran Sequence , #2
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.67(d)

About the Author

A winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards, George Alec Effinger is the author of What Entropy Means to Me, Schrodinger's Kitten, and the Marîd Audran sequence that begins with When Gravity Fails. He died in 2002.

Editorial Reviews

A major science fiction epic.” —Locus on A Fire In the Sun

“A Fire In the Sun proves beyond any doubt that Effinger is a master.” —Mike Resnick

“Like a dive into the eye of a storm.” —The Washington Post Book World on When Gravity Fails

From the Publisher

Since his premature death, George Alec Effinger (1947-2002) has become a science fiction legend, recognized as a master of cyberpunk noir, perhaps best exemplified in this classic 1989 novel about hustler/cop Marid Audran. Fellow author George R. R. Martin described Effinger's Audran stories as "wry and black and savage….there's a knife behind every smile." With their garish characters and cybernetic implants, his novels stake out a surreal terrain all their own.