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New York is toxic—decimated by a dirty bomb years ago. The limnosphere is a virtual safe haven—if you’re rich enough to buy in. Spademan is a hit man—box-cutter at the ready.
His latest job is to snuff out Lesser, a lowlife lurking around other people’s fantasies. As Spademan is about to close the deal, Lesser comes back from the limn with a wild claim: terrorists are planning to attack New York. Again. This time from the inside out.
The warning sends Spademan down a dark path full of unsavory characters and startling revelations. A shadowy political fixer tells him of a long-running power struggle that goes all the way to City Hall. A brilliant Egyptian radical brings Spademan to the mysterious far-reaches of the limn. And a beautiful nurse holds the secret to what, and who, is behind these attacks—and she seems to want to help Spademan stop them. But he works best alone. Or so he thinks.
Spademan has always had his share of enemies, but now they’re coming at him from all sides and it’s impossible to know whom to trust. To stay sharp, his only option might be the one thing he swore he’d never do again.
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- ISBN: 9780553398724
- File size: 261952 KB
- Duration: 09:05:43
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November 3, 2014
The dirty bomb that turned New York City into a wasteland in 2013’s Shovel Ready continues to have reverberations in this solid sequel. To escape the grittiness of reality, many of the wealthy lose themselves in the virtual world of the limnosphere. Former sanitation worker turned hit man Spademan ekes out a living in this bleak dystopia with odd jobs. One of Spademan’s targets is Jonathan Lesser, a “hopper” who is able to enter the fantasies of those suspended in the “limn” and who has made an amazing discovery: terrorists are attacking people in the limn, where killing a person is supposed to be impossible. To stop further attacks, Spademan begins an investigation that leads to a political fixer, an Egyptian radical, and a mysterious nurse. Sternbergh laces his second cyberpunk voyage with dark humor and eccentric characters, but plot nuances are hard to follow without having read the first novel. Agent: David McCormick, McCormick & Williams.
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