Set against him is the young art historian detective Isidore and a variety of local law enforcers and power-brokers. But first he must steal back the man he once was, his identity and secrets hidden in the roaming Martian city of Oubliette. Trapped in the endlessly looping reality of the Dilemma Prison, super-thief Jean le Flambeur is offered freedom on condition that he carry out the greatest heist of all, a theft he never quite managed in his previous existence. That this is a first novel makes his achievement all the more notable. All too rarely the two come together, but in this baroque theft caper, Hannu Rajaniemi has pulled it off with aplomb. T here are science fiction novels that impress and those that entertain.
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