Praise for the Novels of Jon Courtenay Grimwood

“Alternately violent and touching, exotic and strangely familiar.”

—Washington Post

“All brilliant light and scorching heat… Grimwood has successfully mingled fantasy with reality to make an unusual, believable and absorbing mystery.”

—Sunday Telegraph (London)

“Grimwood’s imagination and the lively originality of his writing make this an intriguing enterprise…”

—Chicago Tribune

“Disregard for the lines between genre is something we’ve come to expect of Grimwood, but even by his standards this is audacious—and brilliantly, seamlessly realized.”

—SFX

“Grimwood’s hard-boiled prose reels you in like a velvet rope.”

—Entertainment Weekly

“Ambitious, deft and accomplished… confirms Grimwood’s place amongst the very best of contemporary SF authors.”

—Iain M. Banks

“Grimwood imbues his creations with startling psychological complexity…”

—The Guardian (UK)

“Jon Courtenay Grimwood has emerged over the last few years as one of the more interesting newer British novelists… No one else is doing anything like it—or even trying to. Grimwood actually seems to have been in the places he makes up.”

—Locus

“Grimwood packs every sentence with so much meaning that you’ll want to go back… dazzling, seductive and pointed.”

—The Independent (UK)

“Raymond Chandler for the 21st century…”

—Esquire

“Dazzling panache and an acute satirical eye…”

—The Times (London)

“William Gibson meets Quentin Tarantino.”

—New Woman