Pashazade The First Arabesk
With its face to the sea and its back to the desert, El Iskandryia is North Africa’s most urbane city. A metropolis where cultures meet and clash, and money buys you everything but safety.
On the run from a Seattle prison, Ashraf Bey finds himself main suspect in an Iskandryian murder, hated by the woman he was supposed to marry and responsible for the welfare of his nine-year-old cousin…
In a world where Germany won the First World War…
In a Middle East where the Ottoman Empire still dominates…
In a city where crime goes unpunished, as long as you’re a member of the elite…
If Ashraf Bey is to survive in Iskandryia he must turn detective to uncover answers to questions about himself and the city that holds him in its embrace. Answers that may be factually accurate but are not necessarily true.
Jon Courtenay Grimwood, author of the bestselling and highly-praised redRobe, begins a new series which is the SF equivalent of Lawrence Durrell’s Alexandria Quartet, with the free city of EL Iskandryia as much a character as any human. Praise For Jon Courtenay Grimwood’s redRobe and remix
‘Tough, sexy and brutal, but leavened with sharp humour, redRobe is a tour de force... Grimwood is a name to watch… Dazzling panache and an acute satirical eye’ The Times
‘Grimwood packs every sentence with so much meaning that you’ll want to go back... dazzling, seductive and pointed.’ The Independent
Raymond Chandler for the 21st century...’ Esquire
'Vivid gore, sex and high-octane adventure. This is teriffic stuff' The Bookseller
‘The book of the Millennium.’ Express on Sunday
‘There are few comparisons in this genre when things get this good; apart from the obvious that is. So unless William Gibson releases a new novel before 2001, the smart money is on this being the finest sf novel of the year.’ The List (Edinburgh)
‘A prose so polished that everything appears to be reflected in the chromed bars of a Harley Davidson... Grimwood’s novel is big, bad, nasty and streetwise - but for all that very, very affecting. Buy it, read it, and see for yourselves.’ Interzone
‘Few match Jon Courtenay Grimwood for splenetic, compulsive intelligence and storytelling nous. This is his most accomplished outing yet... Readers ambitious enough to tackle the highly individual universe in these pages may find themselves addicted.’ L1 Entertainment
‘Infernally complex plot, fascinatingly ambiguous characters and sheer drug-fuelled excitement, all to a 120 bpm soundtrack... This is British sf that’s not afraid to take on the Yanks at their own game and, quite frankly, it kicks butt... Five stars.’ SFX
Dazzling panache and an acute satirical eye...’ The Times
‘An unputdownable story. Grimwood is an up and coming sci-fi writer with a fastpaced, cool contemporary style that is the literary equivalent of Quentin Tarantino with the funky energy of James Brown. An excellent energetic thriller.’
‘Read and be gripped.’ Company
‘Grimwood drives his story at an unrelenting speed.’ amazon. co. uk
`The pace is breathless, and like all smart SF this has something to say about contemporary issues.’ Time Out
`Fiction so trendy you can wear it.’ Locus
Paperback - Pocket Books (2004)
Lucifer's Dragon Passion di Orchi is no more than the obscenely rich daughter of a West Coast mafia boss - until she decides to rebuild Venice. In the middle of the Pacific.
A century later, with New Venice ossified into a puritanical elegance, the daughter of Count Ryuchi slips away from her father’s palazzo, out to the levels to play Lucifer’s Dragon. A multi-level, self-perpetuating, true 3-D trawl through the Apocalypse, Lucifer’s Dragon is coded so the game never repeats its own failures. But an altercation in a bar puts Karo on a collision course with NVPD officer Angeli, drafted in by media giant CySat to investigate a murder she knows way too much about.
And then there’s Razz, the silver exotic. Too tired and jaded to keep living, she takes on the job of guarding CySat’s ultimate boss, the ten-year-old Aurelio. With all the high tech security in place, it should be a walk in the park. But the last thing Razz sees is CySat’s child-ruler making too close an acquaintance with an Uzi, and then she wakes up in Zurich. Dead... 'Dazzling panache and an acute satirical eye' The Times
`A multi-layered thriller in which the exotic, tech-saturated setting is as beguiling as the plot. The narrative steams with galvanizing inventiveness’ Time Out
‘Grimwood packs every sentence with so much meaning that you’ll want to go back... dazzling, seductive and pointed’ Independent
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