When Gravity Fails

In a decadent world of cheap pleasures and easy death Marid Audrian has kept his independence the hardway. 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.