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Series: Misc
Genre: SF
ISBN: 0446527742
Pages: 288 pages
Publisher: Time Warner
Price: $24.95
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The Mocking Program by Alan Dean Foster

Description: Inspector Angel Cardenas has seen plenty of corpses like the one in Quetzal inurb—just another Juan Doe robbed of his cash, cards, internal organs, and then dumped in a gutter. However, Cardenas soon learns this particular murder is anything but ordinary...

First, the infallible DNA-ID database insists the cadaver is that of two people—local executive George Anderson and a mysterious Texas businessman. Then Anderson's wife and daughter, Surtsey Mockerkin and Katla, turn up missing, their posh suburban home has been retrofitted into a huge time bomb...and at least three mob syndicates from as many continents are competing to capture or kill twelve-year-old Katla.

Who was the dead man, and why is his daughter being hunted? Relying on his training as a nearly telepathic intuit, Inspector Cardenas embarks on a search that leads him from the sex parlors and stimstick clubs of the Strip—where kids are deadly and even music can kill—to an undersea control room where computer crimes are committed by criminal computers.

Finding Katla Anderson is the key to unraveling the deadly mystery, but what Angel Cardenas doesn't know is that the closer he gets to the girl, the closer the assassins are getting to them...