A Fire in the Sun

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name = A Fire in the Sun
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image_caption = Cover of First Orb Edition
(Tor Books, 2006)
author = George Alec Effinger
country = United States
language = English
series = Marîd Audran series
genre = Science fiction (cyberpunk) novel
publisher = Bantam Dell Pub Group
release_date = June 1989
media_type = Print (Hardcover & Paperback)
pages =
isbn = ISBN 0-385-26324-4
preceded_by = When Gravity Fails, (1987)
followed_by = The Exile Kiss, (1991)

"A Fire in the Sun" is a cyberpunk science fiction novel by George Alec Effinger published in 1989. ["A Fire in the Sun" copyright notes, First Orb Edition: February 2006] It is the second novel in the three-book Marîd Audran series, following the events of When Gravity Fails.

The title of the novel comes from "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue", a song by Bob Dylan: "Yonder stands your orphan with his gun" /"crying like" a fire in the sun."

Plot introduction

.Taking place some months after the events described in When Gravity Fails, Marîd Audran, once a small-time hustler on the streets of the decadent Budayeen, finds himself as one of the lieutenants of Friedlander Bey or 'Papa,' the most influential man in the city. With his independence taken from him and being stationed as a liaison between Friedlander Bey and the local law enforcement under the supervision of Sergeant Hajjar, Marîd is forced to pair up with his colleague Jirji Shaknahyi in order to track down yet another serial killer who likes to remove some of the internal organs of their victims.

Although Sergeant Hajjar doesn't share his theory about the murders being connected, Marîd begins to suspect there might be more to the recent killings than meets the eye, and wonders where the so-called Phoenix File fits in.

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