Osama

Lavie Tidhar

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ISBN 10: 1531842933 ISBN 13: 9781531842932

Publisher: Audible Studios on Brilliance Audio, 2016

In a world without global terrorism Joe, a private detective, is hired by a mysterious woman to find a man: the obscure author of pulp fiction novels featuring one Osama Bin Laden: Vigilante...Joe’s quest to find the man takes him across the world, from the backwaters of Asia to the European Capitals of Paris and London, and as the mystery deepens around him there is one question he is trying hard not to ask: who is he, really, and how much of the books is fiction? Chased by unknown assailants, Joe’s identity slowly fragments as he discovers the shadowy world of the refugees, ghostly entities haunting the world in which he lives. Where do they come from? And what do they want?

Joe knows how the story should end, but even he is not ready for the truths he’ll find in New York and, finally, on top a quiet hill above Kabul—nor for the choice he will at last have to make....

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About the Author:

Born on a kibbutz in Israel, Lavie Tidhar s unusual childhood has inspired a life devoted in equal parts to books and to travelling. He has lived and travelled in Southern Africa for years and is a keen player of the ancient game of Bao. He s since spent nearly a decade living in London before setting off again. He spent a year living in a bamboo shack on a remote island in the South Pacific I still miss the volcanoes, sometimes, he said and two years in South East Asia, followed by a couple of years back in Israel. He is now back living in London, a city he finds endlessly captivating.

Lavie is a prolific writer, keeping up a steady stream of highly-regarded novels, novellas and short stories. He has been described as an emerging master by Locus Magazine, with his work compared to the late, great Philip K. Dick s in both The Guardian and the Financial Times. His novels include the Bookman Histories trilogy of steampunk novels comprising The Bookman (2010), Camera Obscura (2011), and The Great Game (2012) which borrow equally from mythology, classic literature, pulp fiction and noir and kung-fu cinema.

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