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02305aam a22003375 4500 001 932838CABB4F11EE9799A7D243ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240125010040 008 231113s2023 xx 000 1 eng d 020 $a 1982185333 020 $a 9781982185336 040 $d SILO 082 $a 813 100 1 $a Pardo, Paz, $e author. 245 14 $a The shamshine blind / $c Paz Pardo. 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b Atria Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc., $c 2023. 300 $a 314 p ages ; $c 24 cm. 520 $a "In an alternate 2009, the United States has been a second-rate power for a quarter of a century, ever since Argentina's victory in the Falkland's War thanks to their development of "psychopigments." Created as weapons, these colorful chemicals can produce almost any human emotion upon contact, and they have been embraced in the US as both pharmaceutical cure-alls and popular recreational drugs. Black market traders illegally sell everything from Blackberry Purple (which causes terror) to Sunshine Yellow (which delivers happiness). Psychopigment Enforcement Agent Kay Curtida works a beat in Daly City, just outside the ruins of San Francisco, chasing down smalltime crooks. But when an old friend shows up with a tantalizing lead on a career-making case, Curtida's humdrum existence suddenly gets a boost. Little does she know that this case will send her down a tangled path of conspiracy and lead to an overdue reckoning with her family and with the truth of her own emotions. Told in the voice of a funny, brooding, Latinx Sam Spade, The Shamshine Blind is "a rip-roaring beautifully crafted mash-up of cop noir, sci-fi, and alt-history that left me dazzled by its prescience and literary zing""-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Drug enforcement agents $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Drug traffic $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Emotions $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Chemical weapons $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Conspiracies $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Science fiction. 650 0 $a Noir fiction. 650 0 $a Alternative histories (Fiction) 650 0 $a Detective and mystery stories. 651 0 $a Daly City (Calif.) $v Fiction. 941 $a 1 952 $l TYPH572 $d 20240125012645.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=932838CABB4F11EE9799A7D243ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search