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Spectra
October 2007
On Sale: September 25, 2007
368 pages ISBN: 0553589962 EAN: 9780553589962 Paperback
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Science Fiction
From Jon Courtenay Grimwood, author of the celebrated
Arabesk series, comes a stunningly inventive novel of
futuristic noir set in a world of shifting realities. Here
a man is drawn into a gritty postmodern subculture and a
secret kingdom of otherworldly beings to find what he lost
long ago: a reason to live.
Kit Nouveau figured
he’d already come to the end of the world. An Iraqi war
veteran, expatriate, and part owner of Pirate Mary’s, the
best Irish bar in Tokyo, Kit had settled down to await the
inevitable with barely a whimper. It wasn’t exactly how
Kit thought he’d end up, and he was right.
It’s
going to end up a lot worse.
A teenage runaway with
fifteen million dollars in stolen cash and a taste for
cosplay is about to save Kit’s life in a lethal swirl of
scarlet and bridal lace. Lady Neku, a.k.a. Countess of
High Strange, has her own dangerous destiny to fulfill and
it’s mysteriously connected to Kit’s ravaged past. Now
Kit’s only hope for redemption is to save an ex-girlfriend
he tragically failed once before. But everyone says it’s
already too late. And she’s left behind only one ominous
clue: her suicide note.
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