Napper T R - 36 Streets - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: Altered Carbon and The Wind - Up Girl meet Apocalypse Now in this fast - paced intelligent action - driven cyberpunk probing questions of memory identity and the power of narratives. Lin The Silent One Vu is a gangster in Chinese - occupied Hanoi living in the steaming paranoid alleyways of the 36 Streets. Born in Vietnam raised in Australia everywhere she is an outsider. Through grit and courage Lin has carved a place for herself in the Hanoi underworld under the tutelage of Bao Nguyen who is training her to fight and survive. Because on the streets there are no second chances. Meanwhile the people of Hanoi are succumbing to Fat Victory an addictive immersive simulation of the US - Vietnam war. When an Englishman one of the game's developers comes to Hanoi on the trail of his friend's murderer Lin is drawn into the grand conspiracies of the neon gods: the mega - corporations backed by powerful regimes that seek to control her city. Lin must confront the immutable moral calculus of unjust wars. She must choose: family country or gang. Blood truth or redemption. No choice is easy on the 36 Streets.
Title: 36 Streets
Author(s): Napper T R
Publisher: Titan Books Ltd
Barcode: 9781789097412
Pages: 448 Pages
Publication Date: 2/8/2022
Category: Science Fiction