Authors: Alan Dean Foster
And Federale Angel Cardenas, a living lie detector, is a top cop on the blistering streets of virtual reality scams and cryogenic
kidnaps, where talking animals are programmed to kill, computer screens can spit murder, and even the Holy Blessed Virgin’s
ghost runs extortion rackets.
Once Angel Cardenas was blind. But now he sees… straight into the heart of darkness that rules…
Originally published under the pseudonym James Lawson, bestselling author Alan Dean Foster’s tales of the Montezuma Strip
have appeared in
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Amazing,
and
Gardner Dozois’s The Year’s Best Science Fiction.