New York: Aspect, Date: 2003. First Edition. Mass market paperback. Good +. First Edition. Mass market paperback. Montezuma Strip is a true First Edition. The Mocking Program is a First Paperback Edition. 6 3/4" X 4 1/4". 215pp. 321pp. Mild wear to pictorial paper wraps with light creasing and rubbing to covers, corners, and edges. Creasing to spine. Spots of toning to edges of text block of Montezuma Strip. Pages of both volumes are clean and unmarked. Bindings are sound. ABOUT MONTEZUMA STRIP: In a collection of science fiction stories, top police officer Angel Cardenas must survive in a nightmarish future world where wealth and high technology mix with Third World poverty and street gangs.(Publisher) ABOUT THE MOCKING PROGRAM: Inspector Angel Cardenas has seen murdered corpses like George Anderson's, but never a case like this. The victim's ID doesn't match his DNA, Anderson's wife and preteen daughter, Katla, are missing, their home has been turned into a time bomb-and mobs from three continents are all hunting Katla. Relying on his training as a nearly telepathic intuit, Cardenas embarks on a search for clues that leads him from the Strip's sex parlors and stimstick clubs, where kids are deadly and music can kill, to an undersea hideout where computer crimes are committed by criminal computers. Yet the closer Cardenas gets to the girl, the closer assassins are getting to them both...(Publisher). 2003. Aspect ISBN 0446602078 9780446602075 [US]