Best Selling Books by George Alec Effinger

Pauvre Marîd Audran ! Lui qui se croyait définitivement à l''abri des galères, respecté (on l''appelle " cheikh Marîd ") parce que lié au tout-puissant parrain " Papa " Friedlander Bey, le voilà injustement accusé d''un meurtre et expédié sans ménagement chez les bédouins en plein désert d''Arabie ! Pire encore : Papa partage son exil. Dès lors ils n''auront plus qu''un seul souci : se disculper, mais surtout appliquer en bons musulmans les préceptes du Saint Livre. Car n''y est-il pas dit qu''à ceux qui sont lésés Dieu a prescrit le recours au talion ? Faisant suite à Gravité à la manque et Privé de désert, mais pouvant se lire indépendamment, une nouvelle enquête du Philip Marlowe de l''Orient islamique.

"In the 23rd century, when plug-in personality modules are as easy to obtain as gender reassignment, pleasures are cheap and death is easy. Marid Audran has kept his independence the hard way, selling his detection skills in the slums of the Budayeen. By his standards, it''s a comfortable life. But his hard-won freedom is about to be tested ..."--Jacket.

While attending college in Michigan, van Eyck concocts a plan to get rich quick by stealing computer tapes containing the payrolls of the three major auto companies and ransoming them back during labor negotiations

Collection consists of one photocopy of the typescript for "Twisted Cross" by John K. Diomede. Diomede''s real name, George Alec Effinger, is printed at the top. The original/alternate title for the story, "Wehrmacht Cris Cris," is printed on the internal folder and first page of the manuscript, The manuscript is 26 pages, is undated, and bears editor marks.