{"id":2034,"date":"2007-08-13T19:58:34","date_gmt":"2007-08-13T19:58:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/2007\/08\/9tail_fox\/"},"modified":"2007-08-13T19:58:34","modified_gmt":"2007-08-13T19:58:34","slug":"9tail_fox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/9tail_fox\/","title":{"rendered":"9Tail Fox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/rcm-uk.amazon.co.uk\/e\/cm?t=friday05-21&#038;o=2&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;asins=057507809X&#038;fc1=000000&#038;lc1=0000ff&#038;bc1=ffffff&#038;npa=1&#038;lt1=_blank&#038;IS1=1&#038;f=ifr&#038;bg1=ffffff\" width=\"120\" height=\"240\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\" align=\"right\"><br \/>\n<\/iframe><br \/>\nA 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&#8217;d read were his science fiction book review columns for The Guardian.<br \/>\nThis tale is quite intriguing. Bobby Zha is a Chinese American who works for the San Francisco police department. Unfortunately for him, he&#8217;s murdered. But he comes back, in the body of someone else entirely, returning from a long coma. Fortunately, the person who&#8217;s body he inhabits is very rich.<br \/>\nNow unlike many a protagonist, Zha is not especially likeable. Despite being a &#8220;good cop&#8221; (TM), he wasn&#8217;t averse to taking back handers, in kind, from prostitutes and generally misbehaving behind his wife&#8217;s back.<br \/>\nBut he&#8217;s keen to find out why exactly he was murdered, and what his partner had to do with it.<br \/>\nWe embark on a very noirish story, with plenty of suspicious goings on. And the 9Tail Fox? Well, I&#8217;ll let you find out yourself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;d read were his science fiction book review columns for The Guardian. This tale is quite intriguing. Bobby [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2034\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}