The Mocking Program
 | |
| Author | Alan Dean Foster |
|---|---|
| Cover artist | John Blackford |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Science fiction, Detective fiction |
| Publisher | Aspect |
Publication date | August 2002 |
| Media type | Print (hardback & paperback) |
| Pages | 240 pp |
| ISBN | 0-446-52774-2 |
| OCLC | 49226002 |
| 813/.54 21 | |
| LC Class | PS3556.O756 M63 2002 |
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