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In a world where secrets kill, an ex-cop discovers he�s got the biggest secret of all.� Set in a 21st-century Ottoman Empire, Jon Courtenay Grimwood�s 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 doesn�t believe in: his father. Ashraf Bey has been a lot of things�and most of them illegal. Now, having resigned as El Iskandryia�s Chief of Detectives, he�s taking stock of his life and there�s not much: a mistress he�s 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 he�s never known. But when the old Emir�s security chief requests that Raf come out of retirement to investigate an assassination attempt on His Excellency, that�s exactly what Raf gets. Now, disguised as an itinerant laborer, Raf goes underground to discover a man�and a past�he never knew�and won�t survive again. �Fast, furious, fun and elegant, the Arabesk trilogy is one of the best things to hit the bookstores in a while.� �SF Revu �Felaheen is SF at its most inventive.� �Guardian From the Trade Paperback edition.