Edge City (Green Arcade)

ISBN: 1604865032

Author: Soracco, Sin

Condition: New

Edge City, from the author of Low Bite, takes place in an every-noir-city (a thinly veiled portrait of San Franciscos North Beach), and its newest resident is Reno, an angry fledgling just hatched out of prison. Getting out is like a weird dream, and the streets of the City are a muddle of sensations pooling around her.First theres the bustle-everybody busy with mysterious businesses-an amplifying racket of choices. Staggering out onto the late night streets of the City, Reno ends up at the infamous Istanbul Club: dim lights, Arabic music and the sensual Suad dancing. Music, booze, babes and drugs: what more could a felonious girl want?She encounters Huntington, the poisonous charmer who lives above the Club-perverse and powerful in the way only the wealthy can be. Eddie, the underage bartender, is happy to chemically enhance every waking moment. Slowmotion, the sound light technician, huge and darkly mysterious, has connections to people and places that Reno didnt even know existed. Slowmotions elegant friend, Poppy, offers mental transport to realms beyond Xanadu; in her little valise theres everything necessary for any trip, including the hallucinogenic Teeth of Idi Amin.The owner of the club, handsome gambler Sinclair, hires Reno to waitress. Grumbling, drinking, snarling, and swearing, Reno bangs her way through everyone elses complicated plans, entangling herself in a byzantine labyrinth of betrayal, revenge, general mayhem, and yes, good times.