Near future. Book 1 of trilogy: When Gravity Fails , A Fire in The Sun , The Exile Kiss . Islamic setting. Originally published in 1986.
"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 disembowler 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." [jacket blurb, US pbk, 1988]
Hardcore cyberpunk.
Recommended.
