j courtenay grimwood

The third and final book in Grimwood's Arabesk trilogy, continues the story of Ashraf Bey, a reluctant detective in a near future alternate North Africa. This is science fiction meets Raymond Chandler meets alternate history meets a touch of cyberpunk. A strange mix but one I find compelling...

Effendi Jon Courtenay Grimwood Bantam, Sep 2005, $12.00, 432 pp. ISBN: 0553587447 His Excellency Pashazade Ashraf “Raf” Bey has been selected as the detective chief of El Iskandryia at a time when the Ottoman Empire is divided between religious fundaments and secular nationalists. However, Bey...

Felaheen Jon Courtenay Grimwood Bantam, Jan 2006, $12.00, 384 pp. ISBN 0553383787 The assassination attempt using a poisonous snake could have come from anyone who had access to Emir Moncef. The viper bites his calf, but he survives because his twelve year old son witnessed the incident and...

Stamping Butterflies Jon Courtenay Grimwood Bantam, Sep 2006, $12.00 ISBN: 0553383775 In Paris, a vagrant reads in a paper he picks up that the President of the United States Gene Newman will soon visit Marrakech; he decides on the spot to assassinate the American leader. Shockingly the tramp...

End of the World Blues Jon Courtenay Grimwood Bantam, Oct 2007, $12.00 ISBN 9780553589962 In Tokyo, runaway teenager Lady “Countess of High Strange” Neku hides fifteen million dollars in a in a train station locker. Soon afterward she saves the life of former Iraq war veteran Kit Nouveau when...

The Fallen Blade Jon Courtenay Grimwood Orbit, Jan 27 2011, $ 14.99 ISBN: 9780316074391 In 1407, di Millioni Family descendants of Marco Pole (see End of the World Blues) rule Venice. The city-state is powerful on the Italian Peninsular but has much stronger enemies across the continent from...

Pashazade is an alternate history set in a similar alternate world to his earlier ‘Cyber Noir’ series (starting with neoAddix) one in which the Napoleonic dynasty was never defeated and the Germans won the First World War and, most pertinent to this story, the Ottoman Empire never fell. It is...

I find Grimwood’s books very hard to evaluate; I have given each of the three ‘Cyber Noir’ books, of which this one is the third, just three stars, which normally would mean that I have had enough of this author and would be unlikely to return to them, and yet I know I will return. I’m not...

Although I've not scrolled through every thread on these pages, I don't seem to be able to find any reference to JCG's work, which is mostly science fiction/alternate reality. I started off with Red Robe and Remix, but the books that really interested me are the "Arabesk" series - Pashazade...