9Tail Fox (Gollancz S.F.) Book

From the jacket cover of the hardcover version: 'Hands reached down and rolled Bobby over, not hard or rough, but as if he wasn't really there. There was a yank as someone freed the back of his tee-shirt, and then pain far beyond anything he remembered, more vicious than the cold numbness in his chest. 'That was when Bobby accepted that, yes, he had been shot. Only now something else was happening and it was infinitely worse... It took Bobby Zha two hours to die."Sergeant Bobby Zha of the SFPD is desperate to find out who murdered him. But he also needs the answers to some other questions. Like, why is he in another man's body? Why is someone trying to kill him again.... And why is he being haunted by a nine tailed Celestial fox?From the shell-shattered ruins of Stalingrad in 1942 to present day politics of San Francisco China town, 9tail Fox is evocative of place and crystal clear in its depiction of character. This is literary fiction at its best from one of the most exciting writers workings today. From the back cover:9tail Fox is a tour-de-force, a compelling literary meld of noir crime, SF and Chinese myth. It shows Jon Courtenay Grimwood to be a writer at the peak of his powers.Read More