# The Shockwave Rider

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- Book: [The Shockwave Rider](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-brunner/the-shockwave-rider) ([The Shockwave Rider.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-brunner/the-shockwave-rider.md))
- Authors: [John Brunner](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-brunner)
- Publisher: gateway
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-05-7510-166-1
- Published: 2011-09-29
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

He was the most dangerous fugitive alive, but he didn't exist! Nickie Haflinger had lived a score of lifetimes . . . but technically he didn't exist. He was a fugitive from Tarnover, the high-powered government think tank that had educated him. First he had broken his identity code - then he escaped. Now he had to find a way to restore sanity and personal freedom to the computerised masses and to save a world tottering on the brink of disaster. He didn't care how he did it . . . but the government did. That's when his Tarnover teachers got him back in their labs . . . and Nickie Haflinger was set up for a whole new education! First published in 1975.