Jon Courtenay Grimwood

Written in 1993 at a kitchen table in Tottenham, North London, neoAddix was eventually published by New English Library, part of Hodder, in January 1997 (having spent over a year gathering dust at Gollancz, then in the middle of being swallowed by Cassell).

Marketed by NEL as a 'cyber noir ultra-shocker', described by Maxim as featuring a 'plutonium-density plot' & categorised by Dick Jude of Forbidden Planet fame as 'weirdshit', neoAddix was the book on which I learnt to write. (Well, began to learn to write.) And the only one which I've refused to let go back into print. So take that into account. This is, sadly, the cut-version I sent to NEL. Since I've lost the files for the original, longer book.

Note: Contains sex, violence, drugs, cliches, poor spelling, bad writing, DOS prompts, modems that beep at you and other things that may now be unacceptable. This is not an advertisement. Simply a warning.

'Alex Gibson is an evidence chaser on the run in London. One of his eyes is the palest grey. The other is a Zeiss eyecam with enough data locked in it to blow open a very messy murder trial. Unfortunately for Alex, media giant CySat GmB reckon the evidence belongs to them. And they intend to take it. So does the Order of Antioch, a shadowy organisation run by an 800-year-old Sicilian psychopath...
(from the NEL back cover blurb)
 

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