In San Francisco, in the scarily realistic near future,
Inspector Ross Carver and his partner Clive Jenner are
respected as the longest lasting pair of investigators
working in the homicide division. When they are called to a
crime scene with a bizarre dead body, the FBI quickly arrive
and remove them to a decontamination unit. Awaking two days
later, they have no memories of the incident.
Carver's beautiful, but aloof, neighbor, Mia, has been
nursing him since he was brought home unconscious. He is
intrigued by Mia and wants to learn more about her. At the
same time, weird memories about the lost time keep niggling
at the back of his mind. Not sure about Mia's role in all of
this, Carver keeps her close to him as he starts delving
deeper into what really happened to him and Jenner.
Enlisting Jenner's help, it is soon evident that something
is terribly wrong with the world. And they don't know who
they can trust. What they uncover is shocking beyond belief,
especially what is happening to those involved, as Carver
and Mia run for their lives. And not really knowing who --
or what -- is hunting them.
In THE NIGHT MARKET, Jonathan Moore is masterful at
sustaining cutting-edge suspense. The undertones of
conspiracy and speculative science fiction blend perfectly
with that suspense to make this a phenomenal thriller. THE
NIGHT MARKET grabbed me from the start and never let up. The
riveting plot is a vivid depiction of a near future with
chilling, yet believable, twists and turns. The characters
are cleverly devised enough that I felt real empathy for
their plights as they struggle to survive. This engrossing
story proves it would not take much change for this to
become a reality and for evil to take over in the guise of
advancing technology. Truly scary, indeed.
I have not read the first two books in this fictional
tryptic, which the author calls a "three-panel painting of
San Francisco," but I have purchased them: POISON ARTIST and
DARK ROOM. In anticipation of more great stories from
Jonathan Moore, I will be reading them soon.
From an author who consistently gives us “suspense that never stops” (James Patterson), a near-future thriller that makes your most paranoid fantasies seem like child’s play. It’s late Thursday night, and Inspector Ross Carver is at a crime scene in one of the city’s last luxury homes. The dead man on the floor is covered by an unknown substance that’s eating through his skin. Before Carver can identify it, six FBI agents burst in and remove him from the premises. He's pushed into a disinfectant trailer, forced to drink a liquid that sends him into seizures, and is shocked unconscious. On Sunday he wakes in his bed to find his neighbor, Mia—who he’s barely ever spoken to—reading aloud to him. He can’t remember the crime scene or how he got home; he has no idea two days have passed. Mia says she saw him being carried into their building by plainclothes police officers, who told her he’d been poisoned. Carver doesn’t really know this woman and has no way of disproving her, but his gut says to keep her close. A mind-bending, masterfully plotted thriller—written in Moore's "lush, intoxicating style" (Justin Cronin)—that will captivate fans of Blake Crouch, China Miéville, and Lauren Beukes, The Night Market follows Carver as he works to find out what happened to him, soon realizing he's entangled in a web of conspiracy that spans the nation. And that Mia may know a lot more than she lets on.
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