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  • Paperback: 400 pages
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster (5 Feb 2007)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0743276175
  • ISBN-13: 978-0743276177
  • Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 16.2 x 3.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,426,514 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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A teenage girl, naked and badly injured, is discovered by two fisherman in mountain forest in Macabee County, Oregon. Before lapsing into a coma, she asks for someone called Billy, and dies before reaching hospital. The dead girl is identified as Edie Collier, last known to be living on the streets of Portland after quarrelling with her mother. That's how Summer Zeigler, a newly qualified detective in the Portland Police Bureau, gets involved: she arrested Edie for shoplifting six months before. Then the body of Edie's boyfriend, Billy, turns up in the Nevada desert. His manner of death, a wound caused by a crossbow bolt and the removal of his heart and eyes, links him to several other murders. Summer's investigations will lead her to the strange mansion of software millionaire Dirk Merritt, who made his fortune from a computer role-playing game called Trans. But cyberspace is no longer enough to fulfil Merritt's fantasies as it once did. Now he wants to play a real-life version of his game. A game with deadly consequences.

About the Author

Paul McAuley has worked as a researcher in biology at various universities, including Oxford and UCLA, and for six years was a lecturer in plant science at St Andrews University. His first novel won the prestigious Philip K. Dick Memorial Award, and his fifth the Arthur C. Clarke and the John W. Campbell Awards. He lives in North London. Visit the author's website at www.omegacom.demon.co.uk

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5.0 out of 5 stars Enthralling and fun, 30 Dec 2006
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A change of pace from the ever reliable McAuley: an enthralling police procedural. McAuley's recent thrillers - Mind's Eye, White Devils - have been sui generis page-turners with dazzling prose style and the author proves no less adept turning his hand to a more familiar genre. As ever, McAuley's characters are the standout features here, coming to vibrant and utterly believable life. Very highly recommended!
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