World Trade Centre by Mike Longshott

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Title: World Trade Centre 

Author: Mike Longshott

Publisher: not known but in Paris 

Source book: Osama by Lavie Tidhar 

Yes, yet another fictional book that I read about online. In a world without terrorism, Joe, a private detective, is hired to find the mysterious Mike Longshott, author of a series of novels about a fictional vigilante called Osama bin Laden.

In Joe’s world, the Osama bin Laden: Vigilante series of books by Mike Longshott, are popular trade paperbacks with garish covers released by an imprint that also publishes porn. One of the books is World Trade Centre.

Although Longshot is supposed to be a pulp fiction writer, the excerpts from Longshott’s work in Osama aren’t pulpish at all, but rendered in a crisp journalistic prose, unlike the rest of the novel which is written in a deliberately pulp-noir style. Or so I read. Because that’s not a sentence I would normally write.

I haven’t come across a copy of Osama, but it sounds a very interesting book, so here’s a write up from Locus Magazine I came across by chance. It tells me a lot more than I knew, and is worth a read.

If you are interested by World Trade Centre, sadly the only title I know from the Osama bin Laden series, you might like Lord of the Swastika by Adolf Hitler.

Osama won the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel in 2012.

Stupid iPad deleted the credit for this photograph of the Twin Towers. Sorry about that.