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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