"Cross the X files with The Twilight Zone, add a pinch of The Outer Limits and a dash of Eerie, India"
It's a place where the sun doesn't shine, a locale where
past, present and future converge at times. It is where
one's darkest dreams and desires are met, a place not of
this earth but connected to it so that people travel to and
from it. John Taylor lived his entire life in the
Nightside, abandoned by his father when he discovered the
woman he married wasn't human. John has a gift of being
able to locate anyone anywhere and he used that extra sense
to help people. He finally got sick of lies, betrayals and mistrust of
those who would turn from friend to foe in the blink of an
eye. He left the Darkside and set up shop as a private
detective in mundane London and for five years etched out a
living, safe and secure. One day Joanna Barrett comes to
his office asking for help in locating her runaway daughter
in the Darkside. Unable to refuse a damsel in distress,
John travels to the Darkside, a place he's secretly happy
to have a reason to return to because it is home and so
very much alive. 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 Darkside is like. Simon
R. Green has written this fascinating little gem that makes
people want to walk on the wild and visit his extraordinary
world. For though it is the focus of darkness, The
Nightside has packets of goodness, which means that those
who want to can defeat evil anywhere. Harriet Klausner
Reviewed by Harriet Klausner
Posted May 3, 2003
SummaryJohn Taylor is not a private detective per se, but he has a
knack for finding lost things. That's why he's been hired
to descend into the Nightside, an otherworldly realm in the
center of London where fantasy and reality share renting
space and the sun never shines.
For John Taylor, there's no place like home...
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