Richard Morgan: Thin Air, Kartoniert / Broschiert
Thin Air
- From the author of Netflix's Altered Carbon
(soweit verfügbar beim Lieferanten)
- Verlag:
- Orion Publishing Co, 06/2019
- Einband:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Sprache:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9780575088573
- Artikelnummer:
- 8740804
- Umfang:
- 544 Seiten
- Gewicht:
- 377 g
- Maße:
- 198 x 126 mm
- Stärke:
- 38 mm
- Erscheinungstermin:
- 13.6.2019
- Hinweis
-
Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
Klappentext
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE GUARDIAN
Hakan Veil is an ex-corporate enforcer equipped with military-grade body tech that's made him a human killing machine. His former employers have abandoned him on a turbulent Mars where Earth-based overlords battle for profits and power amid a homegrown independence movement. But he's had enough of the red planet, and all he wants is a ticket back home - which is just what he's offered by the Earth Oversight organization, in exchange for being the bodyguard for an EO investigator. It's a beyond-easy gig for a heavy hitter like Veil . . . until it isn't.
When Veil's charge starts looking into the mysterious disappearance of a lottery winner, it stirs up a hornet's nest of intrigue and murder. And the deeper Veil is drawn into the game, the more long-buried secrets claw their way to the Martian surface. Now it's the expert assassin poised against powerful enemies hellbent on taking him down - by any means necessary.
Praise for Thin Air
'Kick-ass . . . Mixed in with the thriller-esque action and cyberpunk backdrop is a hard-boiled noir story complete with a twisting and turning plot that keeps readers on their toes' Los Angeles Times
'Richard Morgan wants to destroy your Mars fantasies . . . It's a grim vision, but one that Morgan finds far more plausible than the cheerful visions of plucky Mars colonists common in sci-fi' Wired
'A robotically enhanced Jack Reacher [in a] dazzlingly intricate game of political double- and triple-cross, spiced with tastily kinetic battle sequences' The Guardian
'If you ever imagined that the core esthetics and themes of cyberpunk-lowlifes and high tech; corporate dominance; future noir; post-human evolution and cyborg adaptations; hardscrabble urban environments-were played out, Thin Air will set you straight, and kick your butt in the process. . . . Both kinematic and cinematic, [Thin Air is] limned by Morgan with balletic precision and smashmouth grace' Paul Di Filippo, Locus
Biografie
Richard Morgan wurde 1965 in Norwich geboren. Er studierte Englisch und Geschichte in Cambridge und arbeitete etliche Jahre als Englischlehrer im Ausland, bevor er sich entschloss, sein Geld als freier Schriftsteller zu verdienen. Sein Roman Das Unsterblichkeitsprogramm ausgezeichnet mit dem Philip K. Dick Award wurde ein internationaler Bestseller. Morgan lebt und arbeitet in Glasgow.