When Gravity Fails
Ratings22
Average rating3.7
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Ratings22
Average rating3.7
Hired by a two-hundred-year-old underground crime lord to carry out a vengeance attack, Marid Audrian is altered with sophisticated surgical implants that will enable him to counter a deadly killer whose abilities have been enhanced by the personalities of history's most notorious psychopaths. By the author of Schrodinger's Kitten. Reprint.
Series
3 primary books4 released booksMarîd Audran is a 4-book series with 3 primary works first released in 1989 with contributions by George Alec Effinger.
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Picked this one from a bookclub friend's TBR and it was a good one! A mix of those film noir movies and [a:Mickey Spillane 50948 Mickey Spillane https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1318950096p2/50948.jpg] type of ‘no nonsense', first-person, who dunnits, with a dash of [b:Altered Carbon 40792913 Altered Carbon (Takeshi Kovacs, #1) Richard K. Morgan https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1531415180l/40792913.SY75.jpg 2095852]'s uncertainty as to who you're actually meeting.I don't usually like the who dunnits as some are really easy to figure out and I'm not fond of murders as the base for a story. This did have some of gruesome but it definitely did not give things away too soon.
Had i read this book in the 80s or 90s, i would have loved it, as it provides exactly what i had expected then from a noir cyberpunk. Unfortunately, today it feels seriously dated - not only in its technology, but also in its form and storyline. Also, it's supposedly set in an Arab world, but the characters think American, behave American and speak American - nothing actually feels Middle Eastern at all, but rather Chicago.
