Grimwood Jon Courtenay (EN) — End of the World Blues

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From Jon Courtenay Grimwood, author of the celebrated Arabesk series, comes a stunningly inventive novel of futuristic noir set in a world of shifting realities. Here a man is drawn into a gritty postmodern subculture and a secret kingdom of otherworldly beings to find what he lost long ago: a reason to live.Kit Nouveau figured hed already come to the end of the world. An Iraqi war veteran, expatriate, and part owner of Pirate Marys, the best Irish bar in Tokyo, Kit had settled down to await the inevitable with barely a whimper. It wasnt exactly how Kit thought hed end up, and he was right.Its going to end up a lot worse.A teenage runaway with fifteen million dollars in stolen cash and a taste for cosplay is about to save Kits life in a lethal swirl of scarlet and bridal lace. Lady Neku, a.k.a. Countess of High Strange, has her own dangerous destiny to fulfill and its mysteriously connected to Kits ravaged past. Now Kits only hope for redemption is to save an ex-girlfriend he tragically failed once before. But everyone says its already too late. And shes left behind only one ominous clue: her suicide note.From the Trade Paperback edition.