Jeff Noon returns with a noir detective thriller that’s characteristically fizzing with ideas and rich on atmosphere. In A Man Of Shadows, Noon creates a metropolis that’s split down the middle. In Dayzone, there’s no escaping the searing, multi-coloured and omnipresent fluorescent lights that make up the sky. In Nocturna, the locals live in constant darkness. In between, there’s the Dusk, a mysterious no-man’s land covered in fog from which few return, and which seems to be growing…
Every hardboiled noir needs a downtrodden hero, and our man here is John Nyquist. True to genre tradition, he’s boozy, broke, despondent, and separated from his ex, living in an apartment he can’t afford. What makes Nyquist stand out, however, is the gradual revelation that he could be, unlike many wisecracking gumshoes,…
