Böcker av Ridley McIntyre

In a near-future New York City Boy Eastman, cyberspace hacker, has been kidnapped and forced by the Vijayanta corporation to find their missing artificial intelligence, Ghostdancer. His new boss, Sarah Faraji, brings him home to the Red Zones of London where he was raised and recruits his old friend Motorhead to help him. But old wounds and new scars are about to collide and Ghostdancer may be hiding in the most painful place of all.

After a short stint running ammunition to the 21 Brotherhood in Thames-Midland, Cody Ingram returns home to the Mire, a floating city in Newark Bay, with a new assignment: To find and destroy the escaped Artificial Intelligence known as Ghostdancer. As the search goes on, she discovers a strange doomsday cult surrounding the AI and the bliss chip it's selling called "Seven". To pause the end of the world, she's going need help from her ex-boyfriend, Damon, her disabled sister, Reb, and the legendary Camden Town Boy.

In a near-future New York City Boy Eastman, cyberspace hacker, is coaxed out of retirement by his old friend Kreskin the Fixer to do one more job against Madoka - his former employer. Soon he will find that he's not only Madoka's latest target, but Kreskin's, and he'll need his smarts and his girlfriend Kitty's fighting skills to set things right.

SOMETIMES YOU JUST GOTTA GET YOUR HALO DIRTYFormer cyberspace hacker Boy Eastman lives off the grid in the Manhattan Outzone: he deals apps, has a kick-ass girlfriend and keeps his nose clean. But when Kreskin the Fixer blackmails him into one more job against his former employer, his online reappearance sparks a chain reaction - now everyone wants a piece of Boy, and he's going to need all the help he can get to survive. Meanwhile on a server farm in the mega-city of Thames-Midland, the artificial intelligence called Ghostdancer has hatched a plan to escape cyberspace for good, and she's not going alone...A cyberpunk crime story in the grand tradition of William Gibson and Neal Stephenson, McIntyre's YEAR OF THE RAT throws you face first into a plausible near-future world of corporate-sponsored street gangs, cyborgs and messianic Artificial Intelligences populated by street-wise characters with plenty of attitude.