9Tail Fox

A couple of years ago, I went along to Borders after work one evening and saw Jon Courtenay Grimwood and a couple of other authors talk about their new SF books. Prior to that, the only Grimwood I'd read were his science fiction book review columns for The Guardian.

This tale is quite intriguing. Bobby Zha is a Chinese American who works for the San Francisco police department. Unfortunately for him, he's murdered. But he comes back, in the body of someone else entirely, returning from a long coma. Fortunately, the person who's body he inhabits is very rich.

Now unlike many a protagonist, Zha is not especially likeable. Despite being a "good cop" (TM), he wasn't averse to taking back handers, in kind, from prostitutes and generally misbehaving behind his wife's back.

But he's keen to find out why exactly he was murdered, and what his partner had to do with it.

We embark on a very noirish story, with plenty of suspicious goings on. And the 9Tail Fox? Well, I'll let you find out yourself.