Gun, with Occasional Music

Jonathan Lethem. Tor Books, $12.95 (272pp) ISBN 978-0-312-85878-0

Lethem's first novel is a work of noir science fiction inhabited by animal gangsters and a gritty futuristic P.I. (Mar.)

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