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Welcome to the dark zone, December 15, 2006
This review is from: A Walk on the Nightside (Mass Market Paperback)
Welcome to the world of John Taylor, a London based private eye that can find ANYTHING. Yet despite this talent John hasn't exactly prospered, mainly because he's not from round here. John was born in the Nightside, a hidden part of London where the misfits and deadbeats end up after falling through the cracks. A place where Gods and Demons hang out when people stop believing in them. A place that despite being home got just a bit too dangerous, so John ran for it.
But circumstances conspire to force him back, in order to find the missing daughter of his client, John has to go home where he hooks up with some old and extremely nasty friends, the love of his life, the homicidal Shotgun Suzie, who did shoot him once, but he didn't take it personally and Razor Eddie the punk god of the straight razor a malodorous being who does good by hacking the bad into a piles of bloody pieces, who currently owes John a favour and REALLY doesn't like it.
With friends like these who needs enemies but John has plenty of these too, some of whom he knows, others who remain hidden and mostly want him dead. To confuse matters John's not too sure why, but it may have something to do with his mother, whoever or whatever she may be. All he knows is that the few people who do know are so scared of her they won't talk, even to him.
Welcome to the Nightside, the illegitimate offspring of Dashiell Hammett and H P Lovecraft. Welcome to an original world of neatly crafted characters in well focused stories. Simon Green does not write the bloated doorstops beloved of some of his contemporaries, but this is no bad thing. Welcome to the dark zone, you'll like it so much you may not want to leave.
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Great Author at a Great Price, June 7, 2007
This review is from: A Walk on the Nightside (Mass Market Paperback)
Simon Green is a wonderful British writer who creates a unique and fascinating world with his novels of the Nightside. This particular volume has the first three books in that series, and it is considerably cheaper than buying each of those books separately. An awesome read and an excellent deal!
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WILD trip wild ride! The Nightside is a TRIP, September 3, 2008
I love the nightside! It is a great series of books. Sarcastic, stuff born of nightmares.. John Taylor is a great charactor.
LOVE these books. My fave charater is Dead Boy!
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