The Exile Kiss

From a Nebula Award winner: A “phenomenal,” action-packed tale of crime, corruption, and cybernetics ( Locus ). Set in a divided near future,  The Exile Kiss  is author George Alec Effinger’s third book about the high-tech Arab ghetto called the Budayeen. It is a world filled with mind- or mood-altering drugs for any purpose; brains enhanced by electronic hardware, with plug-in memory additions and new personalities; and bodies shaped to perfection by surgery. Marid Audran, having rise