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Effendi
Jon Courtenay Grimwood
出版
Random House Worlds
, 2005-08-30
主題
Fiction / Science Fiction / Action & Adventure
Fiction / Noir
Fiction / Alternative History
ISBN
0553901915
9780553901917
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=AZ_Ig2zLgRsC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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Masterfully blending speculative fiction and hard-boiled mystery, Jon Courtenay Grimwood’s acclaimed Arabesk series plunges readers into a world eerily familiar and shockingly unpredictable. Here a troubled detective follows a trail of clues through a city where innocence itself may be a thing of the past. . . .
It’s the twenty-first century and El Iskandryia—an alluring metropolis built on seduction, corruption, and lies—is the double-dealing heart of an Ottoman Empire that still rules the world. But these days a sense of dread hangs over El Isk—and over Ashraf Bey, the city’s new Chief of Detectives. A trial is set to take place, and it’s up to Raf to decide the case. There’s only one problem: the suspect is the billionaire father of the woman Raf should have married.
Industrialist Hamzah Effendi is accused of crimes so horrible that even El Iskandryia wants him eliminated. But Raf finds that protecting the sensual and impetuous Zara Quitrimala from the secrets of her father’s past may be even more dangerous. For Raf must now solve a series of brutal murders that are somehow connected to the case—and to Zara. And the closer Raf gets to the truth, the more elusive the answers become—and the closer he comes to his own demise.…
Praise for the Arabesk series and
Effendi
“
Raymond Chandler for the 21st century.”
—Esquire
“All brilliant light and scorching heat . . . Grimwood has successfully mingled fantasy with reality to make an unusual, believable, and absorbing mystery."
—
Sunday Telegraph
(London)
“If you’re not reading Jon Courtenay Grimwood, then you don’t know how subtle and daring fiction can be.”
—Michael Marshall Smith, author of
Spares
and
One of Us
“Fast, furious, fun and elegant, the Arabesk trilogy is one of the best things to hit the bookstores in a while.”
—
SFRevu
