Fire in the Sun by George Alec Effinger - 1989

* A Fire in Sun, did you know that most first editions are sold to libraries --Unfortunately they do a very poor job of mucking them up with a bunch of stickers, stamps everywhere -a card pocket, and then in this case they let teenagers read and handle them...the pages themselves are actually clean except in the middle of the book they put another "Hollywood High School" stamp so the book is just acceptable condition... you can get this one- later find a better copy. Author is a significant presence in a Sci-Fi field - last 20 years widely praised in at the time of this book printing he was living with his cat in New Orleans Louisiana....probably washed or Blown Away with Katrina...-- good reading or lending copy--Marid Audran has risen from street punk to right-hand man for Algiers' boss - and in the wake of murder - suddenly he finds himself a defender of the badge....A Fire in the Sun - In a world filled with so many puppets, strings tend to get tangled. In this follow-up to the groundbreaking… Read More

Doubleday Books, 1989. Hardcover. Acceptable. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

New York: Doubleday, 1989. Appears never read. Fine condition in a bright and shiny Near Fine dust jacket (only a touch of light shelfwear). NO chips, tears or fading. NOT price clipped ($18.95). Sharp corners. Square and tight. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a library discard. NOT a remainder. Pages are fresh, crisp, clean and unmarked. Jacket art by Steve & Paul Youll. Bound in the original red boards with a blue cloth spine stamped in gold and shiny red metallic. From the publisher: "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… Read More

Paperback. Very Good.

Doubleday, 1989-06-24. Hardcover. Good.

Doubleday, 1989-06-24. Hardcover. Used:Good.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Doubleday, 1989-06-24. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!