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Spectra
December 2005
Featuring: Ashraf Bey
384 pages ISBN: 0553383787 Trade Size
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Science Fiction | Mystery Private Eye
In a world where secrets kill, an ex-cop discovers heβs got the biggest secret of all.β¦ Set in a 21st-century Ottoman Empire, Jon Courtenay Grimwoodβs acclaimed Arabesk series is a noir action- thriller with an exotic twist. Here an ex-cop with nothing to lose finds himself on the trail of a man he doesnβt believe in: his father. Ashraf Bey has been a lot of thingsβand most of them illegal. Now, having resigned as El Iskandryiaβs Chief of Detectives, heβs taking stock of his life and thereβs not much: a mistress heβs never made love to, a niece everyone thinks is mentally incompetent, and a credit card bill rising towards infinity. With a revolt breaking out across North Africa, the world seems to be racing Raf straight to hell. The last thing he needs is a father heβs never known. But when the old Emirβs security chief requests that Raf come out of retirement to investigate an assassination attempt on His Excellency, thatβs exactly what Raf gets. Now, disguised as an itinerant laborer, Raf goes underground to discover a manβand a pastβhe never knewβ¦and wonβt survive again.
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