BLACK MAN BY RICHARD MORGAN
Softcover.
Carl Marsalis is a traitor, a bringer of death, a genetic freak and an unwelcome reminder of all that is dark in the human psyche - he is, in every sense of hte word, a Black Man. And right at the moment he's beyond the UN's jurisdiction, banged up in a Florida jail for financing an illegal abortion. So when the US police call, Carl cuts a deal.
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Black Man is an unstoppable SF thriller but it is also a novel about prejudice, about the ramifications of playing with our genetic blueprint.