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THE NIGHT MARKET

Jonathan Moore

From an author who consistently gives us “suspense that never stops*” (*James Patterson) comes 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—a man killed in one of the city's last luxury homes, covered in an strange substance—when 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 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—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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Published 2018-01-01 by Orion

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“A deliciously dark tale of paranoia and consumerism run amok" Read more...

Q&A with Moore: “I'd be thrilled if someone read THE NIGHT MARKET and came away thinking –‘Hey, wow. That was like Raymond Chandler and Philip K. Dick sat down with a typewriter and a case of bourbon and just went crazy.' Read more...

“Moore (The Dark Room) sets this outstanding SF noir in a near-future San Francisco, where ocean current changes have made the rain nearly continuous, electric cars prowl the streets, and disposable LED postcard ads seduce the citizenry. Moore smoothly fills Carver's quest for the truth with equal parts hidden menace and outright strangeness. This mystery feels like Blade Runner as if it were written by Charles De Lint or Neil Gaiman.”

“The Night Market is a chilling near-future thriller that could be described as Blade Runner meets Raymond Chandler. The conspiratorial plot at the center of this dark, gritty novel will make anyone feel paranoid. Verdict: Readers of noir mysteries as well as lovers of near-futuristic sf will adore this title and will probably want to pick up the other two novels in this loosely connected yet interrelated trilogy. “– Library Journal

“A sharp and scary near-future thriller punctuated with gruesome murder, revealing a far-reaching, reprehensible plot. Moore's subtly futuristic San Francisco, beset by the buzzing of drones, crumbling buildings, and gangs of copper thieves, sets the ugliness of the physically and morally decaying city against scenes of ostentatious and very conspicuous consumption. There are no easy answers at the culmination of Moore's unsettling, stylish noir, the third in a loosely connected trilogy set in San Francisco (The Dark Room, 2017, etc.). The not-quite-nihilistic yet still utterly shocking revelations in the third act are the stuff of nightmares.”

“The third entry in Moore's San Francisco-based triptych portrays a futuristic conspiracy with horrifying implications. A thought-provoking, daunting conclusion to a masterful suspense trio.” - Booklist