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A Man of Shadows

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A private eye stalks a serial killer through the streets of a permanently dark world in this mind-bending sci-fi thriller from one of the genre’s most visionary authors
 
Below the neon skies of Dayzone—where the lights never go out, and night has been banished—lowly private eye John Nyquist takes on a teenage runaway case. His quest takes him from Dayzone into the permanent dark of Nocturna.
 
As the vicious, seemingly invisible serial killer known only as Quicksilver haunts the streets, Nyquist starts to suspect that the runaway girl holds within her the key to the city’s fate. In the end, there’s only one place left to search: the shadow-choked zone known as Dusk.
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    • Publisher's Weekly

      June 26, 2017
      Noon (Mappalujo) has written a kaleidoscopic noir novel of dizzying dream logic, but the center doesn’t hold. Nyquist is an average gumshoe in an unique world. He travels between Dayzone, land of a thousand lights that burn at all hours, and Nocturna, where all but a few bulbs have been extinguished. Rather than dividing time into 24-hour cycles of activity and rest, both cities operate according to multiple other time divisions that crisscross and overlap. Separating the two cities are the mist-choked Dusklands, home to monsters just barely glimpsed in the shadows. Nyquist’s job: to track down Eleanor Bale, the daughter of a wealthy businessman. The gig proves to be anything but straightforward, and Nyquist is drawn into an ever-widening gyre of double-crosses and complications. The characters feel like wind-up archetypes whose motives never seem clear. Though the novel’s visuals are striking and beautiful, they lack substance: all glitter and no warmth.

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