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Cover artist John Blackford Publication date August 2002 ISBN 0-446-52774-2 Country United States of America | 3.3/5 Goodreads Language English Pages 240 pp Originally published August 2002 Publisher Hachette Book Group OCLC 49226002 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Media type Print (hardback & paperback) Genres Science Fiction, Detective fiction Similar Alan Dean Foster books, Science Fiction books | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Mocking Program is a 2002 novel by American author Alan Dean Foster.
Plot
A hard-boiled police procedural set in a highly imaginative megalopolis called the Montezuma Strip, which stretches along the old U.S.-Mexican border. When police inspector Angel Cardenas investigates the case of a male corpse found with most of its internal organs missing, the victim turns out to have had two identities - one as a local executive, the other as a Texas businessman. The plot thickens when the victim's booby-trapped house nearly kills Cardenas and his partner. The author makes use of a vast array of futuristic elements; notably, sapient apes led by gorillas and intelligent rogue computers that commit computer crimes.
While the book does not state this, this is a continuation of a series of short stories featuring the same main character, written by Foster and initially published in genre magazines under the pen-name of James Lawson, and then collected under his own name in the Warner book Montezuma Strip (1995), ISBN 0-446-60207-8