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Contraband
The most dangerous commodity of all...
Joe "Skid" Marak, aka the pilot, is a compulsive smuggler. For him, borders are an outrage to freedom. He lives with his pet rat in the abandoned spire of Manhattan's TransCom Building. His friends are outcasts in a world ripped by plague and repression. The pilot knows his days are numbered. On his ECM-pak, he watches helplessly as his freetrading comrades vanish from the victims of a mysterious force known only as "Bokon Taylay."
The brother of his Rollerblading, go-go-dancing girlfriend is Taylay's latest victim. All that is left behind is a smuggled message telling the pilot he must locate the one man who can break Taylay's code, the legendary author of the Smuggler's Bible--a man who may not even exist. It's a risk worth taking. Because to the pilot, there's only one contraband more valuable than life--freedom.
Joe "Skid" Marak, aka the pilot, is a compulsive smuggler. For him, borders are an outrage to freedom. He lives with his pet rat in the abandoned spire of Manhattan's TransCom Building. His friends are outcasts in a world ripped by plague and repression. The pilot knows his days are numbered. On his ECM-pak, he watches helplessly as his freetrading comrades vanish from the victims of a mysterious force known only as "Bokon Taylay."
The brother of his Rollerblading, go-go-dancing girlfriend is Taylay's latest victim. All that is left behind is a smuggled message telling the pilot he must locate the one man who can break Taylay's code, the legendary author of the Smuggler's Bible--a man who may not even exist. It's a risk worth taking. Because to the pilot, there's only one contraband more valuable than life--freedom.
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448 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published March 31, 1997
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February 25, 2016
Author Foy's second foray into science fiction and what I found to be an increasingly unreadable arc. I miss his maritime related novels.
SciFi - In the near future, Joe "Skid" Marak, aka the pilot, goes on a quest to find Hawkley, the legendary author of the Smuggler's Bible. Hawkley may hold the secret to stopping the government's increasingly efficient interdiction efforts.
SciFi - In the near future, Joe "Skid" Marak, aka the pilot, goes on a quest to find Hawkley, the legendary author of the Smuggler's Bible. Hawkley may hold the secret to stopping the government's increasingly efficient interdiction efforts.
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