I Read Books: 9tail Fox

9tail Fox

Bobby Zha is a detective sergeant in the Chinatown division of the San Francisco police. He’s good with the homeless and children. While poking into a case of a young girl shooting a burglar he is betrayed, shot, sees a nine-tailed fox and dies.

He wakes up as Robert Vanberg in New York, who has been in a coma since he was 7 years old. He talks his way out of the clinic and discovers that there is a shattering amount of money held in trust for him. He heads to San Francisco where he knows the criminal and police landscape, and now has a lot of money to fake his way into being an investigator into his own death.

With the money he’s an arsehole and he keeps sleeping with women he encounters and some of them aren’t happy with how this plays out. At first this seems to be a reaction to dying and coming back, but as he investigates into his life and death it becomes clear that he was always bad, a bit corrupt, cheating on his wife (who in turn cheated on him), failing to turn up for family events, lying to his boss and so on.

People have been trying to learn how to shift bodies and Bobby Zha is not the first to go down this route.

Read This: A weird murder mystery
Don’t Read This: It’s a grim and gritty story with every new revelation opening worse versions of the characters