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''9tail Fox'' is a 2005 in literature, 2005 novel by Jon Courtenay Grimwood. Plot summary The plot centres on Bobby Zha, a Sergeant at the fictional SFPD Chinatown, San Francisco, California, Chinatown station in San Francisco. The claimed shooting of a burglar by eleven-year-old Natalie Persikov conflicts with Zha's intuition on the matter, but before he has a real chance to investigate he is shot himself. After meeting the ''Jinwei hu'' (the nine-tailed fox of the title) while dead, Bobby wakes up in a hospital. However, there are a few surprises for him on waking; not least that apparently he isn't Bobby Zha anymore. The doctors tell him he's in New York City, New York, not San Francisco; he was never shot; and that he's Robert Van Berg, sole survivor of a car crash that killed both his parents and put him into a coma since he was seven. Now adult and sole inheritor of his family's considerable fortune, Bobby wastes no time in getting back to the West Coast of the United St ...
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Jon Courtenay Grimwood
Jon Courtenay Grimwood (born 1953 in Valletta, Malta) is a Maltese born British science fiction and fantasy author. He also writes literary fiction as Jonathan Grimwood, and crime fiction and thrillers as Jack Grimwood. Biography Grimwood was born in Valletta, Malta, grew up in Malta, Britain, Southeast Asia and Norway in the 1960s and 1970s. He studied at Kingston University, then worked in publishing and as a freelance writer for magazines and newspapers including ''The Guardian'', ''The Daily Telegraph'', ''The Times'', and ''The Independent''. Now writing a memoir and studying for a PhD at the University of St Andrews, he lives in Edinburgh and is married to the journalist and novelist Sam Baker, with a son, Jamie, from a previous marriage. Much of his early work within SF&F has been described as post-cyberpunk. He won a British Science Fiction Association award for '' Felaheen'' in 2003, was short-listed for the Arthur C. Clarke Award for '' Pashazade'' the year before, ...
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