The Mocking Program

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name = The Mocking Program
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author = Alan Dean Foster
cover_artist = John Blackford
country = United States
language = English
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genre = Science fiction, Detective fiction
publisher = Aspect
release_date = August 2002
media_type = Print (Hardcover & Paperback)
pages = 240 pp
isbn = ISBN 0-446-52774-2
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"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.