The Lucifer Deck

The Lucifer Deck

288 pages
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Published: 1 Jan 1997
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ISBN: 9780451453778

Format: Mass market paperback

Language: English

Publisher: Ace

Publication date: 1 January 1997

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CONJURED KILLER RUNNING WILD ON THE NETLife on the streets in 21st-century Seattle can be tough, especially for a young ork like Pita. And it gets a lot tougher when she witnesses a corporate mage murdered by the violent spirit he just conjured from another dimension. Now she's in a heap of trouble with the dead mage's employer, an organization with something to hide.Fortunately, KKRU reporter Carla Harris is in a position to help. Carla needs a big story to give her career some juice, and Pita's predicament might be the ticket. Because Pita's pursuer - MCT, the mega-huge computer film - has hired the heavy hand of the Yakuza crime organization as muscle, things heat up pretty fast. Moreover, the entity that MCT's mage foolishly summoned is very, very old, and unlike any power on earth. It has infiltrated the telecommunications matrix with devilish cunning - and unless Pita can thwart it with her newly acquired magical powers, Seattle's throat will be wide open for the cutting...