WINNER OF THE 2012 WORLD FANTASY AWARD FOR BEST NOVELLavie Tidhar was in Dar-es-Salaam during the American embassy bombings in 1998, and stayed in the same hotel as the Al Qaeda operatives in Nairobi. Since then he and his now-wife have narrowly avoided both the 2005 King’s Cross and 2004 Sinai attacks-experiences that led first to his memorable short story "My Travels with Al-Qaeda" and later to the creation of Osama.In a world without global terrorism Joe, a private detective, is hired by a mysterious woman to find a man: the obscure author of pulp fiction novels featuring one Osama Bin Laden: Vigilante…"An awesome book, dark, twisty alt-universe terrorist noir" – Lauren Beukes, author of Zoo City"Bears comparison with the best of Philip K Dick’s paranoid, alternate-history fantasies. It’s beautifully written and undeniably powerful." – The Financial Times"Not a writer to mess around with half measures…brings to mind Philip K Dick’s seminal science fiction novel The Man in the High Castle." – The Guardian"A strange, melancholy and moving refl ection, torquing politics with the fantastic, and vice virtuosically versa." – bestselling author China Mieville"The author is young, ambitious, skilled and original. Osama is an ingenious inversion of modern history…excellent, evocative and atmospheric." – bestselling author Christopher Priest"Intensely moving." – Interzone
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