Adam Colclough lives and works in the West Midlands, he writes regularly for a number of websites, one day he will get round to writing a book for someone else to review.
In the near future a miracle drug has defeated illness and death, for a price, creating a race of Titans with near godlike status. That one of these super beings could be murdered is almost unthinkable, until it happens, landing detective Cal Sounder with a homicide investigation that goes to the heart of an unequal new world.
Nick Harkaway draws on a wide range of sources to create his latest novel. Film noir, pulp fiction and the dystopias imagined in seventies movies like Soylent Green amongst others go into the mix. The result is a distinctive world that mirrors some of the inequalities of ours with an extra twist of darkness added for good measure.
Sounder is the perfect anti-hero to go down the mean streets of the nightmare city Harkaway describes. A man made cynical by hard knocks, but still trying to do something like the right thing. The private eyes who appeared in the pages of Black Mask would surely raise a toast to him from the office bottle in recognition of a fellow traveler.
The pace is suitably hectic, Harkaway’s prose drips with pithy one-liners and the action sequences are tightly choreographed. All the pieces are in place to deliver an intelligent thriller that imagines a chilling, but all too believable, future.
