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ISBN 0-340-67472-5 (UK pbk, 1997)
novel, science fiction, manga, cyberpunk, virtual reality, nanotechnology, London
First novel. Strongly influenced by manga. Followed by a sequel: Lucifer's Dragon .
"Alex Gibson is an evidence chaser on the run in London. One of his eyes is palest grey. The other is a Zeiss eyecam with enough data locked in it to blow open a very messy murder trial. Unfortunately for Alex, media giant CySat GmB reckon the evidence belongs to them. And they intend to take it. So does the Order of Antioch, a shadowy organization run by an 800-year-old Sicilian psychopath.
"Bad news for prosecutor Clare Fabio, who's been set up but doesn't yet know it. Just as she doesn't yet know her only chance of getting out of Paris alive is to cut a deal with a ruthless, criminally inclined computer.
"While on the other side of the world, wired into the Cy, sits Johnnie T, leader of the neoAddix, Japan's slickest street gang -- who just may be able to do something to help them.
"Or maybe not...
"neoAddix , drawing on today's and tomorrow's developments in genetics, nanotechnology and computer hacking, is a dark, violent technoshocker that splices the thriller with Japanese traditions of manga to create cutting-edge cyber noir." [jacket blurb, UK pbk, January 1997]
"A fusion of manga and cyberpunk."--Henry W.Targowski (in Mark/Space , January 1997).
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