When Gravity Fails
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In a city where neon burns brighter than the stars and death comes cheaper than a drink, Marid Audrian survives the only way a man can—by selling his loyalty carefully, and never for free. But in the Budayeen, everything’s for sale…including Marid.
Now a new kind of butcher stalks the alleys, a killer who swaps personalities like masks at a carnival—slipping from cold-blooded spy to sadistic madman with every cartridge he plugs into his skull. And the job of stopping him has fallen squarely into Marid’s lap.
The Budayeen’s ancient crime lord—two centuries old and still pulling strings—has chosen Marid as his weapon of vengeance. But to take on a murderer armed with the minds of history’s worst psychopaths, Marid must first surrender to the surgeon’s knife, and be rebuilt for war.
Savage, sardonic, and unforgettable, When Gravity Fails drags you through a world of sleaze, cybernetic vice, and high-voltage murder. Effinger’s masterpiece stands as one of the great noir visions of science fiction.