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Noir
by K. W. Jeter
ISBN: 0553576380
ISBN-13: 9780553576382
Format: Paperback
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Summary
Los Angeles. The 21st century. Rogue cop McNihil is asked to find a dead man's identity which has been absorbed by a prowler, a computer program that doubles as a sex toy in the virtual world of the Wedge. To his eyes, which have been enhanced so that he sees everything as a though it were a black-and-white 1930s detective film, it looks as if there is more to the case than he has been told. As McNihil tangles with everyone from a corporate executive who wields almost godlike power to clerks at fast-food body enhancement clinic, he comes to realize that among the dead, the living, and the non-corporeal, there are secrets that must be kept.
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"It's a tough job but someone has to do it: bring the crime-and-thriller genre known as "noir" in to the 21st century. Fortunately, K. W. Jeter is up to the task, and in "Noir"...he lays out the future with a cheerless tenacity Raymond Chandler might have applauded." -- Gerald Jones
-- New York Times Book Review
Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Bantam Books
Published date: 1999
Size: 4.25 x 7 inches
Weight: 0.55 pounds
Pages: 484
Publisher's Notes
In the world of Noir, the elite employ "prowlers, " manufactured simulations of themselves, which can descend into a sexual underground and bring back memories both exotic and erotic. A corporate executive's disappearance into that nether-world draws an investigator deep into a seductive future society where information is as deadly as any weapon.
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Spectra. Used - Good. 100% Money Back Guarantee. Shipped daily. Over one million satisfied book lovers read with Experienced Books. 1999. Paperback. Bantam Spectra Pbk. Ed. Good condition, showing modest signs of wear. BINDING IS PAPERBACK; Cover has some wear on edges. Some rubbing on cover. ( more information) Offered by Experienced Books LLC (United States)
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Spectra. MASS MARKET PAPERBACK. 0553576380 PAPERBACK - GC - Book cover has some surface and edge wear, spine some creasing, otherwise book interior pages clean and in good reading condition. . Good. ( more information) Offered by Sheri's Book Treasures (United States)
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Spectra, 1999-09-01. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. Mass Market Paperback ( more information) Offered by Page Master Used Books (United States)
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Bantam Books, 1999. Original 6.99 cover price intact. No marks or writing. No spine lines. Trace of edge wear.. ISBN: 0553576380. 1st Printing. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good Plus. FICTION SCIENCE. ( more information) Offered by DesertPrincess/SFF Books (United States)
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Bantam Books, 1999 The edges and corners are worn from shelfwear.. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. ( more information) Offered by Balthazar Books (Canada)
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Spectra, 1999-09-01. Mass Market Paperback. Good. Tanning, Shelfwear. ( more information) Offered by Page Master Used Books (United States)
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New York: Spectra, 1999. Reprint edition. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good/Wraps. A very good pocket-size paperback with lightly rubbed covers. This book is clean, tight, unmarked. Padded envelopes are used to protect the book. Paper . ISBN: 0553576380. ( more information) Offered by George Cross Books (United States)
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Westminster, Maryland, U.S.A.: Bantam Books, 1999 Paperback. Sound & nice copy, light to moderate shelf/reading wear, stamped, tape at base of spine.. Mass Market Paperback. Good/n/a. ( more information) Offered by The Book Women (United States)
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Very Good; 1998. First Printing. Almost like new condition ; Paperback; Bantam Books; New York; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 464 pages; , ( more information) Offered by tuckerstomes (United States)
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New York: Bantam Books, 1999. Mass market paperback, 484 pages. . First Thus. Soft Cover. Very Good +. ( more information) Offered by Mimico BOOKS (Canada)
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Bantam, 1998. Softcover. VG+. Spine creased.. no. SF novel. Mass Market Paperback ( more information) Offered by Old Goat Books (Canada)
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Bantam [0-553-57638-0] [date not known], later printing. (Paperback) About fine. (Science Fiction, Mystery) * * * Specializing in science fiction, fantasy, horror, and mystery since 1973. * * *. ( more information) Offered by Pandora's Books Ltd. (United States)
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New York, NY, U.S.A.: Bantam Books. 1999. Second Printing. Mass Market Paperback. Good. Brief summary of content available upon request by e-mail. ( more information) Offered by Second Chance Books (United States)
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Bantam [0-553-57638-0] [date not indicated], later printing. (Mass market paperback) About fine. . . . (Science Fiction, Mystery). ( more information) Offered by Grant Thiessen / BookIT Inc. (United States)
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Westminster, Maryland, U.S.A.: Bantam Books, 1999 A beautiful copy of this fine cross-genred story. Interiors are unread. Soft cover wraps show only a modicum of shelfwear. Spine is uncreased. Gift quality condition, but this might be too good a read to gift out.. First Mass Market Paperback Printing. Mass Market Paperback. As New/No Jacket. Illus. by Broeck Steadman - Cover Art . 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. ( more information) Offered by Bookmarc Books (Canada)
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