Effendi: The Second Arabesk: 2 - Rilegato

* 'Grimwood packs every sentence with so much meaning that you'll want to go back... dazzling, seductive and pointed' INDEPENDENT
* 'Unless William Gibson releases a new novel before 2001, the smart money is on this being the finest SF novel of the year' THE LIST (EDINBURGH)
* 'Dazzling panache and an acute satirical eye' THE TIMES
* 'Grimwood has so much energy and such a talent - he carries you along relentlessly, like a crazed hijacker' LOCUS
* 'A prose so polished that everything appears to be reflected in the chromed bars of a Harley-Davidson . . . Grimwood's novel is big, bad, nasty and streetwise - but for all that very, very affecting. Buy it, read it and see for yourselves' INTERZONE
* 'Fiction so trendy you can wear it' LOCUS
* 'Vivid gore, sex and high-octane adventure. This is terrific stuff' THE BOOKSELLER
* 'This is British SF that's not afraid to take on the Yanks at their own game and, quite frankly, it kicks butt. . . Five stars' SFX
* 'Raymond Chandler for the 21st century' ESQUIRE
* 'Pashazade is the author's finest yet' STARLOG
* '... his best work to date... this is also a deeply original work, carrying within it the seed of Grimwood's vision of an alternate future which I feel sure will blossom and bloom' ALIEN ONLINE
* 'Grimwood has successfully mingled fantasy with reality to make an unusual, believable and absorbing mystery' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
* 'One of the leading lights on the British science fiction scene' SUNDAY TRIBUNE (DUBLIN)
* 'A tremendous read that is every bit as good as you would expect from a writer of Grimwood's standing... this really is essential reading' ENIGMA
* 'Read it at the first available opportunity' OUTLAND

Jon Courtenay Grimwood was born in Malta and grew up in the Far East, Britain and Scandinavia. He also writes for magazines and newspapers including the GUARDIAN and SFX.