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Jinn Hunter: Book One: The Prism Paperback – August 1, 2019

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Oddball and loner Oliver Quinn was raised by his uncle, the proprietor of New York’s most bizarre emporium of Oriental rugs, Ozymandias & Son. Zoned out more than he’s zoned in, Oliver perceives patterns in everything – from fallen autumn leaves in Central Park, to the freckles on a stranger’s face. When his uncle gives him a mysterious paperweight said to have been in the family for centuries – since it was discovered by a farmer on the Mongolian Steppes – Oliver’s life changes in the most extraordinary way. Gaining entry into the secret Realm that shrouds all our lives, he learns what he imagines to be reality is no more than a fragment of what actually exists. In a multiverse, where every permutation is not only possible but certain, our world is an insignificant backwater. With the veil lifted, Oliver is introduced to a parallel life form with which we share the multiverse…The mysterious and all-powerful race of Jinn. Far from the loveable blue-skinned giants projected by Hollywood, Jinn are capable of wreaking terror on an unknown scale. When they go rogue, as they frequently do, they must be captured. This perilous task is entrusted to the bravest fraternity of warriors in existence – the Jinn Hunters. Stumbling into the secret heart of the Realm, Oliver learns of the Prism. A vast penitentiary fashioned from sheets of impregnable glass, it contains legions of incarcerated Jinn. But, as Oliver soon comes to understand, his arrival is no accident. Having brooded for an eternity – since being imprisoned by King Solomon – the most evil Jinn in all existence has just escaped... Nequissimus. The future of the Realm rests on Oliver Quinn, whose ancestral bloodline is primed to capture the great Jinn, thereby saving not only humanity, but the entire multiverse. A cross between The Thousand and One Nights and The Men in Black, THE PRISM is the first awe-inspiring novel in Tahir Shah's much-awaited JINN HUNTER series. Quite possibly the most original book of its age, it lures the reader into a Twilight Zone conjured from pure imagination.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Secretum Mundi (August 1, 2019)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 460 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1912383284
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1912383283
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.28 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 1.16 x 8.5 inches

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Tahir Shah was born in London, and raised primarily at the family’s home, Langton House, in the English countryside – where founder of the Boy Scouts, Lord Baden Powell, was also brought up.

Along with his twin and elder sisters, Tahir was continually coaxed to regard the world around him through Oriental eyes. This included being exposed from early childhood to Eastern stories, and to the back-to-front humour of the wise fool, Nasrudin.

Having studied at a leading public school, Bryanston, Tahir took a degree in International Relations, his particular interest being in African dictatorships of the mid-1980s. His research in this area led him to travel alone through a wide number of failing African states, including Uganda, Sierra Leone, and Zaire.

After university, Tahir embarked on a plethora of widespread travels through the Indian subcontinent, Latin America, and Africa, drawing them together in his first travelogue, BEYOND THE DEVIL'S TEETH. In the years that followed, he published more than a dozen works of travel. These quests – for lost cities, treasure, Indian magic, and for the secrets of the so-called Birdmen of Peru – led to what is surely one of the most extraordinary bodies of travel work ever published.

In the early 2000s, with two small children, Tahir moved his young family from an apartment in London’s East End to a supposedly haunted mansion in the middle of a Casablanca shantytown. The tale of the adventure was published in his bestselling book, THE CALIPH'S HOUSE.

In recent years, Tahir Shah has released a cornucopia of work, embracing travel, fiction, and literary criticism. He has also made documentaries for National Geographic TV and the History Channel, and published hundreds of articles in leading magazines, newspapers, and journals. His oeuvre is regarded as exceptionally original and, as an author, he is considered as a champion of the new face of publishing.

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Bob Jacobs
The Best Fantasy Book Available!
Reviewed in the United States on December 2, 2019
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While I am a huge fan of Tahir Shah's, having read most of his incredible books, I am not always a fan of fantasy novels. This book was a complete exception to that rule and made me deeply appreciate a genre that I had previously overlooked. Tahir takes the reader down the rabbit hole in this elaborate and exiting journey from Ozymandias and Sons carpet store in Manhattan to The Realm, another dimension of Reality where thoughts can become things and anything and everything is possible. Tahir describes a place so fantastical that it would be very hard to conjure in the imagination, but Tahir describes it with such brilliance that he paints the picture for his readers. In the Realm, there is a grandfather clock that is actually an old man and jinn of every imaginable description, including those that can shape shift and turn into furniture and pose as famous paintings like The Mona Lisa. This book has many serious insights about life in it, while also making you howl with laughter as well. Take the ride, you won't be disappointed.!

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Being Oliver Quinn Vol. 1
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The name of the protagonist and then his fate, Jinn Hunter hooks the reader. Oliver's attention becomes a rapidly expanding participatory experience of the multiverse. This is the journey of a prepared seeker for higher understanding. Once Oliver cannot rely on "school boys models" his thinking becomes intuitive acting. Zig zag, dreaming, images, patterns, epiphanies, and ongoing stepping through. Symbols have been used in ancient wisdoms for evolutionary growth. Is the multiverse exactly these- working purposefully and in infinite permutation? There are so many fresh words. The Supplementary material is a riotous hilarious thick pack of pages. What are we doing here? Makes me wonder how words function beyond and outside of their connotations. Lights your mind on fire, comforts, challenges and enchants. Even under the trash compactor pressures of our pandemic, I come to consider I live in an astonishingly wondrous networked environment.

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The experience is like drinking from a fire hose. Extraordinary Gulliver type tail of the space between the subatomic particles. As category theory says if your mind can imagine the infinite then it is able to contain and understand it. Nice to have a travel guide for the other side of the electron cloud. Epic!

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read this amazing work, full of
astoundingly complex, weird, strange
and wonderful imagery and fantasy.
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Hunter, Book One, The Prism, compellingly
readable. Full of highly original and
zanily descriptive content, the story,
at the same time, seemed to be frequently
salted with thought-provoking notions,
and with imagination-stretching relationships.
I also have to happily admit that I found
myself laughing out loud when reading some
of the tidbits in the supplementary material
at end of the book. I have little doubt that
within the form or content of this multiversal
epic, there are some truly serious intentions,
but there is also some wonderfully creative
silliness and delightful humor.

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Reviewed in the United States on May 20, 2021
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Another great book by this wonderful author. I was first introduced to Tahir Shah by his superlative Sorcerers Apprentice, one of the greatest travel books ever. The Jinn Hunter is very fun and a great work of learning fused with imagination. The legends of the Jinn are the endemic throughout the Middle East along with tales of magic and sorcery. This exciting novel draws on that tradition in a contemporary and original way. Read it and enjoy!

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Reviewed in the United States on September 1, 2019
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Another Magic Carpet Ride through an unending realm of imagination. Absolutely splendid! The incredible detail will amaze you and have you chuckling all at once, if not laughing out loud. Tahir Shah once again has masterfully conjured up a story full of wry wit and scintillating fun! Always a treasure to slip into this author’s Secretum Mundi.

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Thank you Tahir. You helped me find my sense of humor with this book. I had lost it. It was horrible. Then, while reading your book one night, I found it - And I laughed, and laughed, and laughed. It felt so good. I am so grateful. Thanks again.

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Reviewed in the United States on August 24, 2020
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The writer Tahir Shah lets out all stops. It is a wild ride so hang on tight!
Funny, suspenseful, silly, unique, serious philosophy, deep thoughtfulness, insightful, great fun, much food for thought.

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Paul Gamache
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Reviewed in Canada on October 8, 2019
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Jinn Hunter, by Tahir Shah, is an imaginative and compelling tour de force which will keep you entranced and turning the pages. As a survival guide to the surreal times in which we live, it cannot be matched. Neither can it be matched for pure entertainment. Prepare to be spellbound and delighted.

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“REALITY IS NEVER WHAT WE IMAGINE IT TO BE”
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 16, 2019
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Take a trip down the rabbit hole of Tahir Shah’s mind into a multiverse that is ten times more bizarre and discombobulating than anything found in Alice’s Wonderland or that other weird world of Lewis Carroll, The Jabberwocky. According to this extraordinary book, an infinitesimal number of intertwined and coexistent worlds lie just on the other side of the veil of our limited perception. And roving through these worlds are Jinn, creatures that are capable, when they go rogue, of wreaking chaos. When the most powerful Jinn of all, Nequissimus, escapes from capture, the whole of existence (the Realm), including our world, is thrown into turmoil and lunacy. Only Oliver Quinn, all unbeknownst to him, can save the situation. As he is inducted into the phantasmagorical worlds on the other side of our notion of reality, Oliver is as bemused and intrigued and horrified as the reader at what he finds there.

The feat of imagination that has created all this is breathtaking. The detail of strange creatures, plants, worlds and beings, including a copious glossary of fantastical things like ‘Slaked bones of Kramuläia’ and ‘Festooned Slime Gourds’, is so rich, fully imagined and convincing that, at the same time as being totally wacky and hilarious, it doesn’t give time for disbelief. The reader ends up feeling that, although at one level it’s a madcap and thoroughly entertaining fictional romp, on another level it feels like a metaphor for a different kind of complexity just outside the reach of our comprehension. As the book tells us, “..most of the time we are incapable of real perception” and we must learn to “zigzag….to understand how the lines of possibility snake out, criss-cross, and ultimately converge”. Tahir Shah’s book certainly sends the mind zigzagging. Full of wonders. And wonderful.

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A Sea of Poetic Imagination
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 22, 2019
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It’s visionary. A sea of poetic imagination.

But it’s also deeply serious. Fact and fantasy are two halves of the same thing. Seriousness needs humour. Light needs darkness. They are all found in The Prism.

The nature of reality, the existence of multiverses and time, are all dealt with. If you accept that the intellect is not the only route to acquiring knowledge, and that a special type of experience handed down from generation to generation in Tahir Shah’s family provides an alternative form of access to knowledge, you may also see in this book insights which go beyond current psychology.

But first read the book, enjoy the story and revel in the imagery. Be grateful that, in this land of stagnant puddles you can behold the sea.

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Extraordinary
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 20, 2019
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I don't normally read much fantasy fiction. Barbara Kingsolver is more in my line than Tolkien. But I am a great fan of Tahir Shah's travel writing and so I read Jinn Hunter. And I reread it. It's easy to run out of adjectives. Extraordinary is the least of it. I needed two readings to get the immersive experience. The bureaucracy and delight in names of Dickens, the wonderful absurdity of Lewis Carroll, the warmth and tenderness of a bedtime story together with a world view of William Blake and Simak multiplied by Revelations .
The paperback is beautifully produced with a marvellous cover image of a jinn.
Highly recommended.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Spannendes Buch

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A Sea of Poetic Imagination

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