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The Human Blend
Edgy and darkly humorous, Alan Dean Foster’s brilliant new cyberpunk thriller, The Human Blend, explores a world where biogenetic enhancements and prosthetic alterations are commonplace.

Whispr and his partner, Jiminy, are street thugs. They’re also Melds. While Whispr’s body has been surgically reduced to preternatural thinness, Jiminy’s legs were modified for super jumping ability—all to further their criminal pursuits. In a dark alley in Savannah, the pair murders a random tourist to steal his artificial hand. But the hapless victim is also carrying an unusual threadlike data storage unit. Scenting potential profit, Whispr and Jiminy grab that, as well.

But things don’t go well for Whispr after he acquires the mysterious thread. Powerful forces are searching for him, and Jiminy has vanished. When a wounded Whispr offers to split the profits with Dr. Ingrid Seastrom in exchange for her medical services, she makes an astonishing discovery.

So begins a unique partnership between the Harvard-educated Seastrom, a Natural, with no alterations at all, and the street smart, physically altered Whispr. They make a formidable team—as long as they can elude the enhanced assassins hunting them.