Babylon Babies - Dantec Maurice Georges

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Résumé :
Set in the hidden "flesh and chip" breeding grounds of the first cyborg communities and peopled by Siberian Mafiosi, Babylon Babies has its hero a hard-boiled leatherneck veteran of Sarajevo named Toorop. His latest assignment is to escort a young woman named Marie Zorn from Russia to Canada. But when Toorop is offered an even higher fee by another organization, he realizes Marie is no ordinary girl. A Schizophrenic and the possible carrier of a new artificial virus, Marie is bearing a mutant embryo created by an American cult, the Cosmic Church of the New Resurrection. They dream of producing a genetically modified messiah, which will end all human life as we know it. Maurice Dantec's Sci-fi thriller Babylon Babies marks the first English language release by this hard-hitting, best-selling, cult French novelist. Dantec's prose is a hybrid of noir-thriller, science fiction, metaphysics, cyberpunk post-humanism, psychedelia and mysticism, inspired by Philip K. Dick, William S. Burroughs, Friedrich Nietzsche, Gilles Deleuze, and other extrapolationists.

Biographie:
Born in 1959, Maurice G. Dantec has published The Red Siren, The Roots of Evil, and Vila Vortex. He is one of the most loved and most hated of contemporary French authors.