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Pashazade

By Jon Courtenay Grimwood

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| Paperback | 9780553587432

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Part mystery, part speculative fiction, and wholly unforgettable, Jon Courtenay Grimwood’s celebrated Arabesk series portrays the dark, hard-boiled story of a man out to prove his innocence in an alternate world where the facts aren’t always the same as the truth . . . and murder isnContinue

Part mystery, part speculative fiction, and wholly unforgettable, Jon Courtenay Grimwood’s celebrated Arabesk series portrays the dark, hard-boiled story of a man out to prove his innocence in an alternate world where the facts aren’t always the same as the truth . . . and murder isn’t the worst that can happen.

It’s a twenty-first century hauntingly familiar–and yet startlingly different from our own. Here the United States brokered a deal that ended World War I, and the Ottoman Empire never collapsed. And lording it over all sits the complex, seductive, and bloodthirsty North African metropolis of El Iskandryia. Almost nothing is what it seems to be in El Isk, and Ashraf Bey is no exception.

Neither the rich Ottoman aristocrat everyone thinks he is, nor the minor street criminal once shipped off to prison when he fell foul of his Chinese Triad employers–the fact is that Raf has as little idea who he is as anyone else.

With few clues and no money, all Raf has is a surname hinting at noble heritage and an arranged marriage to a woman who hates him. But nothing Ashraf al Mansur learns about himself is as unexpected–or as terrifying–as the brutal murder he’s accused of committing. Now, as a hunted man with the welfare of a precocious young girl in his irresponsible hands, Raf must race after a killer through an unforgiving city as foreign to him as the truth he'll uncover about himself.

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  • The Best Reviews: Jon Courtenay Grimwood, Pashazade

    "fabulous futuristic amateur sleuth tale" Abetted by his Aunt Nafisa, who he never knew existed, Ashraf el-Mansur comes to the Mediterranean port city of El Iskandryia having escaped from an American prison. Lady Nafisa explains to her nephew that he ... (read full critics)

    thebestreviews published on Thu, 16 Sep 2010

  • Pashazade: The First Arabesk

    There's a certain zeitgeist that hovers over novels set in Middle Eastern cities. The places themselves, the elaborate houses and palaces, the filthy streets and loud bazaars all become characters, identities with a dialogue of street traffic, shouti ... (read full critics)

    bookotron published on Sun, 12 Sep 2010

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  • Raf, the ultimate hero

    I'm surely not the only woman in love with Raf. He's the perfect hero. Flawed, confused, smahhhhhht, arrogant, selfish, talented, feline and deadly. Click on the book to read the full-on review. This series comes down to wonderful writing and fantastic characters for me. I've re-read each book so ma ... (continue)

    I'm surely not the only woman in love with Raf. He's the perfect hero. Flawed, confused, smahhhhhht, arrogant, selfish, talented, feline and deadly. Click on the book to read the full-on review. This series comes down to wonderful writing and fantastic characters for me. I've re-read each book so many times I can open one at any page and know exactly where I am.

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