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 policeman…and 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…