1 - When Gravity Fails

In a decadent world of cheap pleasures and easy death, Marid Audrian
has kept his independence the hard way. Still, like everything else in
the Budayeen, he's available for a price.

For a new kind of killer roams the streets of the Arab ghetto, a madman
whose bootlegged personality cartridges range from a sinister James Bond
to a sadistic disemboweler named Khan. And Marid Audrian has been made
an offer he can't refuse.The 200-year-old godfather of the Budayeen's
underworld has enlisted Marid as his instrument of vengeance. But first
Marid must undergo the most sophisticated of surgical implants before
he dares to confront a killer who carries the power of every psychopath
since the beginning of time.

Wry, savage, and unignorable, When Gravity Fails was hailed as a classic
by Effinger's fellow SF writers on its original publication in 1987, and
the sequence of Marid Audrian novels it begins were the culmination of
his career.

2 - A Fire in the Sun

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 policemanand 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.

3 - The Exile Kiss

Mard Audran has risen from hustling on the streets of the decadent
Budayeen ghetto to being the right-hand man of one of the Maghreb's most
feared men. As an enforcer for the powerful Friedlander Bey, Mard is just
beginning to enjoy his newfound wealth and privilege, when he and Bey are
betrayed by a rival and accused of murder.

Sentenced to exile and abandoned to die in the vast Arabian desert, Mard
and Bey must somehow survive the searing sands and make their way back
to the now-hostile Budayeen - and, then, take their vengeance.

By turns thrilling and philosophical, The Exile Kiss is the culmination
of one of the great works of modern SF.

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