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A little more light is shed on Bays character in this instalment and the reader is given some of his backstory via flashbacks to both his mothers’ early life and to that of Bey as a child at boarding school. Further insight into Beys “fox” is also given, is it really an artefact of his pre-natal genosplicing or an aspect of his psychosis?
A good book, but one that perhaps lacks the narrative tautness of its prequels, the change of setting seems to diminish Bey and his monomaniacal approach to solving the case removes some of the mystique which surrounded his character.
Think you will know more about the life of the series' anti-hero Raf by the end? Yes. Or maybe no. Gripping development leads Ashraf to face the facts of his parentage via murder, romance, political intrigue, and self delusion. Readers will be pleased to read more of the strange world of billiant child Hani, and of the on-off-not really on-definitely off-maybe on relationship with Zara.
The background history of this series is an almost familiar future middle east where the Ottoman empire didn't end with the First world war. Pashas, colonial rulers, still hold onto power in the North African state of Ifriqiya (so far we know it includes territory in modern day Egypt and Tunisia). Critics of previous books who have moaned about the lack of rigour applied to this history miss the point. In my view the Ottomon references make it possible to set the story in the Middle East, refer to very real issues (child soldiers, exploitation of the developing world by superpowers and big business, biotech etc) without becoming overwhelmed by the very real and desperate events of our modern day world. It also allows just a little bit of another worldview to be explored in the clash between Raf's childhood in the US and the new life he discovers in El Iskandryia and Tunis.
The jump-cut interwoven story lines and parallel timelines add to the constant teasing with what might actually be the truth that characterise these books.
You may have to re-read this as soon as you finish. It looks like a happy ending?
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