When Gravity Fails - George Alex Effinger - 1988 Bantam Books Paperback - Jim Burns Cover

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Blurb: “In a decadent world of cheap pleasures and easy death, Marid Audran has kept his independence and his identity the hard way. Still, like everything else in the Budayeen, he is available

...for a price.

For a new kind of killer roams the streets of the decadent Arabic ghetto, a madman whose bootlegged personality cartridges range from a sinister James Bond to a sadistic disemboweler named Khan. And Marid Audran has been made

an offer he can't refuse.

The two-hundred-year-old "godfather" of crime in

the Budayeen has enlisted Marid as his instrument of vengeance. But first Marid must undergo the most sophisticated of surgical implants before he dares to stop a killer with the powers of every psychopath

since the beginning of time...

Wry, savage and unforgettable, When Gravity Fails is a major new work of dark genius by one of the most celebrated talents in science fiction today-a cutting-edge, heart-stopping tour-de-force detective story about an insane future world not so far removed from our own.”