The Quantum Thief (Jean le Flambeur #1)

by Hannu Rajaniemi

‘Tragedy is when I slip on a banana peel. Comedy is when you fall into a hole and die.

Profound.

I’m finally starting to feel myself again. Fighting a cabal of planetary mind-controlling masterminds with a group of masked vigilantes – that’s what life should be all about.’

the Oubliette is not a place of forgetting. It’s not a privacy heaven. It’s a panopticon.

Do you know what the hell is going on?’ Isidore takes a deep breath. ‘An interplanetary thief is building a picotech machine out of the city itself while the cryptarchs take over people’s minds to try to destroy the zoku colony in order to stop the tzaddikim from breaking their power,’ he says. ‘I want to stop them both.’ He pauses. ‘Also, I think the thief is my real father.’ The driver stares at him blankly for a second. ‘Right on,’