Just Another Judgement Day: 9

Green, Simon R.

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0441018122 ISBN 13: 9780441018123

Casa editrice: Ace, 2009

I’m John Taylor. I work as a PI out of the Nightside, that secret centre of London where clocks always read three A.M., where terrible things happen with predictable regularity, and where the always-dark streets are full of people partying like Judgement Day will never come.

           
Now it may have arrived. God’s own enforcer, the righteous engine of destruction known as the Walking Man, has come to the Nightside. He’s a being whose sole purpose is the elimination of the wicked and the guilty—and given the nature of the Nightside, there’s a good chance that once he gets started, he’ll just keep on until there’s no-one left.
           
So the Authorities have hired me to stop him. Legend has it that he can’t be killed. I’m very much hoping that the legend isn’t true...

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Praise for Simon R. Green’s Novels of the Nightside:
 
“A macabre and thoroughly entertaining world.” – Jim Butcher, author of the Dresden Files
 
“Fast paced and amusing, as well as packed with inventive details.”—The Denver Post
 
“Fast, fun, adventurous detection in a setting in which nearly anything’s possible.” – Booklist
 
“Sam Spade meets Sirius Black...inventively gruesome.” – Entertainment Weekly
 
“Superlative...An intricate and action-filled plot that seamlessly blends crime and the supernatural.” – Publishers Weekly
 
“Readers who prefer their gore with huge melodramatic flourishes and a side of slyly amusing repartee will find Joh Taylor at least the equal of Jim Butcher’s Chicago wizard PI Harry Dresden.” – Kirkus Reviews
 
“Cross The X-Files with The Twilight Zone, add a pinch of The Outer Limits and a dash of Eerie, Indiana, and one might have a glimmer of an idea what the Nightside is like.” – BookBrowser
 
“Totally enjoyable...take a vacation into the Nightside...just try not to get lost in it.” – Crimespree
 
“A captivating tale starring a heroic and endearing character whose thoughts when he is in danger are hilarious.” – Midwest Book Review
 
 “Taylor is the Sam Spade for the twenty-first century, willing to stare down an angel, a demon, or a god. [The] Nightside has the meanest of the mean streets, and John Taylor is right at home there.” – Fantasy Literature

L'autore:

Simon R. Green is a New York Times bestselling author whose works include the Secret Histories Novels, the Novels of the Nightside, the Ghost Finders series,  Drinking Midnight Wine, Beyond the Blue Moon, Blue Moon Rising, The Adventures of Hawk & Fisher, and the Deathstalker series. He lives in England.