Code Noir

by Marianne de Pierres

Book Overview

Jamon Mondo may be dead, but don't think that makes Parrish Plessis' life any less complicated. Sure, she's got a shape-changing psycho off her back, but at what cost? The media have a price on her... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0451461002
• ISBN13: 9780451461001
• Release Date: July 2006
• Publisher: Roc
• Length: 308 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 4.2" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

Australian SF Reader

After a violent conflict over the Tert, Parrish comes out the other side somewhat successful. She is now a boss in her own right, with her own income stream and people that want to work for her. There is still the higher level situation to deal with, and again the machinations of others involve her as he goes on a hazardous mission to Dis, where genetic experimentation and what, if anything, is sharing her body drive her to finding out what is going on. She has to work out if she is a saviour, or not.

Good If you can Still Keep up

Code Noir Is The second Novel of the Parrish Plessis Series. In Code Noir we Find Parrish dealing with rewards and consequences of her actions from the last Novel. She finds she has little time to relax as Debts are owed to and from her as she soon discovers. and Several loose ends from the last novel are still relatively loose in this sequel. This time Parrish has not only her life to worry about but her very sense of self. Code Noir still has the same feel as the last Novel but is a little more focused in the story telling. despite this I am waiting to see what happens next.

stars a female "Mad Maxine"

The Tert War (see NYLON ANGEL) is over and active participants like Parrish Plessis must find a new niche or die. Parrish seems to have adapted having made a success of herself in the post war era as a warlord though she also is a criminal. However, much of what she achieves she owes to the Cabal Coomera who suddenly calls in her blood debt; failure to do their bidding means her blood pays the debt. The Cabal tasks her with finding their abducted, probably dead, shamans who have gone missing, uncover the identity of the culprit, and kill Loyl me Daac who connects the dots at least in their logic system. The first part of the tasking is simple enough though she fears the reaction of the lethal membership if she brings back a corpse or two. The second chore requires some sleuthing also, but she feels confident she can achieve the objective. However their final assignment is a bit more personal as Loyl me Daac is her former lover whom she still cares about as much as she can anyone, but also in some ways loathes. The second Plessis' post-apocalypse thriller stars a female "Mad Maxine" in a world filled with nasty individuals who abuse power supporting Voltaire's philosophy about institutions. The gripping story line is much darker and grittier than the first tale as the societal divides emphasizes class, species, and authority differences in which power is everything. The heroine is a terrific protagonist as she keeps the tale focused in her efforts to walk a thin line where a misstep means death. Harriet Klausner

Parrish Plessis continues to kick a$$...

First if you haven't read Nylon Angel, stop. Go back, read it then pick up Code Noir. Not essential but it sure helps when following the sf aussie style lingo and to a get a feel for the characers. With that said after NA, I couldn't wait a whole year for the publisher to get it out to the US market and ordered it from the UK(Canada has it too). Parrish Plessis is muscle for hire who managed to wipe out her cruel mob boss to become her own warlord and should be able to take it easy and catch her breath. Not so. Her new allies(?), the aboriginal and mysteriously spiritual Cabal Coomera has a job for her than she can't refuse(even if she wanted to), find their missing shamans and do it before a crucial Spiritual equinox called King Tide. As if that's not enough of a problem, she still has to protect her new turf, settle issues with Loyl-Me-Daac whom she can't decide whether to kill as ordered or sleep with as fantasized about, provide for the orphaned ferals that keep looking to her for help, or, oh yeah, when she gets around to it she may want to do something about the ESKALIM PARASITE that's trying to take over her body and soul to remake into something less than human. But hey, everyone's got problems, right? Seriously, I can't think of a cyberpunk series this good since Effinger's Fire in the Sun or Stephenson's Snow Crash. Easier to follow than GIBSON and more action that Blade Runner with characters you can't help but invest in. Make Mine PARRISH! Titanium tough and loaded for gritty, up close and personal, bloody lip, brawling and knife/gunfighting, plus sexy to boot. What's not to like?

Grrrl power gets a spirtual leg-up in gen-mod hell

In this sequel to Marriane de Pierre's debut `Nylon Angel', the original no-nonsense grrrl, Parrish Plessis, continues to avalanche through life, ripping up anything or anyone in her path, while collecting mutants and reprobates along the way. The high festival of King Tide is fast approaching and the Cabal Coomera call in Parrish Plessis' goma - a blood debt - to rescue their clever men. During the mission Parrish hooks up with her sexual Achilles-heal, Loyl Daac and they head into Mo-Vay - a toxic, genetically modified hell. But it's the least of her worries. Her bigger concerns include flushing out the voodoo queen Leesa Tulu and Mo-Vay's answer to Dr. Frankenstein, Ike while fighting her own internal evil manifest in the form of a parasite, the Eskaalim. However, she surprises even herself when she discovers a spiritual strength that usurps her usual gun-toting, ass-kicking self and leads her into victory. In this series Marianne de Pierres manages to subtly integrate indigenous Australian spiritualism with the exploration of dark speculative themes that are allayed only by her well-honed and highly appropriate black humour.