false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175934964m/575584.jpg 575584 6 Imagine a fast-moving computer game set in the black-and-white environment of a 1940s detective movie and you'll begin to get some idea of the mixed metaphors that fill the air in K.W. Jeter's difficult but ultimately rewarding new futuristic thriller.<p> Jeter, who also writes a series of novels based on the popular <I>Blade Runner</I> film about apocalyptic Los Angeles, centers <I>Noir</I> in that same city, now a dark jewel of the dominant Pacific Rim. A detective named McNihil (yes, you got it) has had his eyes surgically altered so that everything looks like an early Bogart movie to him. "Gray newspapers with significant headlines--'Dewey Defeats Truman,''Pearl Harbor Bombed'--moldered in the gutters, or were nudged along the broken sidewalks by the same night wind that cut through McNihil's jacket," Jeter writes about the scene of a plane crash where the detective has been summoned by a corporate villain. A top young executive has been murdered, and McNihil is arm-twisted into tracking down the dead man's missing "prowler"--a computer simulation that roams the world like an electronic ghost.<p> Aided by a young woman called November, whose fingertips are alive with lethal magnetic currents, McNihil brings his--and Jeter's--unique <i>noir</i> vision to bear on a world that for all its weirdness is the ultimately believable extension of our present-day nightmares. <I>--Dick Adler</I> 2001780 1998 Noir total:46|5:15|4:15|3:10|2:2|1:4| 46 173 90 7 575584 0553762869 9780553762860 37 7 3.76 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175934964m/575584.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/575584.Noir 0 0 false Thu Oct 22 14:36:14 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 10 05:41:30 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 22 14:36:14 -0700 2009
In short: his writing is as a...more...]]> 575584 0553762869 9780553762860 37 7 3.76 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175934964m/575584.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/575584.Noir 5 0 false Thu Oct 25 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Jul 17 08:59:59 -0700 2008 Sat Jul 19 11:02:02 -0700 2008 more...]]> 575584 0553762869 9780553762860 37 7 3.76 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175934964m/575584.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/575584.Noir 1 0 false Mon Jul 09 13:13:25 -0700 2007 Mon Jul 09 13:15:05 -0700 2007
There is a fair probability that I am not intellectual enough to enjoy the many subtexts here. If you can call them subtexts. The plot feels like it exists just to exhibit outrageous things masquerading as inte...more...]]> 575584 0553762869 9780553762860 37 7 3.76 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175934964m/575584.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/575584.Noir 1 0 false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 31 09:52:45 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 31 09:55:28 -0800 2008
This is a pretty wierd thriller, out there with some of the Phillip K. Dick stuff - after reading this I actually wonder if Blade Runner 2 is not just commercial schlock.

Still, unless you really like the surreal I would skip this. The noir thriller wrap...more...]]> 575584 0553762869 9780553762860 37 7 3.76 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175934964m/575584.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/575584.Noir 4 0 false Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2003 Fri Aug 08 23:02:18 -0700 2008 Fri Aug 08 23:06:30 -0700 2008 more...]]> 575584 0553762869 9780553762860 37 7 3.76 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175934964m/575584.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/575584.Noir 0 0 false Wed Apr 16 14:23:10 -0700 2008 Thu Feb 26 05:12:20 -0800 2009 575584 0553762869 9780553762860 37 7 3.76 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175934964m/575584.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/575584.Noir 4 0 false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2001 Tue Jan 13 12:17:42 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 13 12:17:42 -0800 2009 575584 0553762869 9780553762860 37 7 3.76 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175934964m/575584.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/575584.Noir 0 0 false Mon Dec 07 10:19:41 -0800 2009 Mon Dec 07 10:19:41 -0800 2009 575584 0553762869 9780553762860 37 7 3.76 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175934964m/575584.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/575584.Noir 0 0 false Mon Nov 30 11:32:54 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 30 11:32:54 -0800 2009 575584 0553762869 9780553762860 37 7 3.76 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175934964m/575584.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/575584.Noir 0 0 false Sun Nov 29 15:34:53 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 29 15:34:53 -0800 2009 575584 0553762869 9780553762860 37 7 3.76 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175934964m/575584.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/575584.Noir 4 0 false Sun Nov 22 11:21:10 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 22 11:21:14 -0800 2009 575584 0553762869 9780553762860 37 7 3.76 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175934964m/575584.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/575584.Noir 3 0 false Thu Nov 19 04:28:11 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 19 04:28:11 -0800 2009 575584 0553762869 9780553762860 37 7 3.76 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175934964m/575584.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/575584.Noir 0 0 false Sat Nov 14 13:43:17 -0800 2009 Sat Nov 14 13:43:20 -0800 2009 575584 0553762869 9780553762860 37 7 3.76 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175934964m/575584.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/575584.Noir 5 0 false Wed Oct 21 13:10:15 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 21 13:10:15 -0700 2009 575584 0553762869 9780553762860 37 7 3.76 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175934964m/575584.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/575584.Noir 0 0 false Sun Sep 27 11:45:56 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 27 11:45:56 -0700 2009 575584 0553762869 9780553762860 37 7 3.76 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175934964m/575584.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/575584.Noir 0 0 false Thu Sep 24 06:39:36 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 24 06:39:36 -0700 2009 575584 0553762869 9780553762860 37 7 3.76 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175934964m/575584.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/575584.Noir 4 0 false Fri Sep 11 18:07:14 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 11 18:07:14 -0700 2009 2037591 1857985966 9781857985962 1 0 3.76 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2037591.Noir 4 0 false Fri Sep 11 04:11:08 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 11 04:11:08 -0700 2009 575584 0553762869 9780553762860 37 7 3.76 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175934964m/575584.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/575584.Noir 5 0 false Wed Sep 02 10:15:15 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 02 10:15:15 -0700 2009 575584 0553762869 9780553762860 37 7 3.76 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175934964m/575584.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/575584.Noir 3 0 false Tue Sep 01 01:32:34 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 01 01:32:34 -0700 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=575584