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Very assured for a debut

My second JH and, so far, another goodie

Bizarrely brilliant

All the threads have come together and this is tense as

I have just reached the point whether the three narratives are starting to merge. This is superb. I am hoping Jordan Harper can keep this going through to the finale

Brilliant eye witness account of the Ziggy years

It was in those days when I wandered about hungry in Kristiania, that strange city which no one leaves before it has set its mark upon him....

The surgery was as dingy as the passage outside, with the same sticky-looking, brown wainscoting. The carpet was red, blue, and green, the wallpaper dusty yellow. The chair faced the windows, the lower halves of which were boarded over, and the crooked shape of the drill hung high up by a cluster of frosted-glass lights

Giovanni at last looked away from the Fort, Ortiz too had remained quite still and was gazing intently at the yellow walls. He, too, who had lived there for eighteen years, looked at them as if bewitched, as if once more he witnessed a miracle. It seemed he could not tire of looking upon them once again, and a vague smile, half joyful, half sad, slowly lit his face.

The Greek ideals of male companionship and beauty are used by the characters as a "safe language" to discuss their feelings in a society that lacks the modern vocabulary for it

A taut, psychologically driven espionage thriller that leans toward the John le Carré school of realism. Enjoying it so far. I suspect it’s about to get very very tense from here on in

The section immediately after Petta walks out of the dinner with Quintin, Alma, and Claypole is heartbreakingly moving. OM captures that specific, cold panic of a woman who has staked her identity on her beauty only to realise an indifferent world has moved on without her.A masterclass of quiet desperation

Only now were we able to cast off our fears and worries, because it was getting later and later, and we had drunk a bottle of Spätlese and all three of us were tiddly. A mere residue of anxiety prevented us from looking at the clock.

"Some situations can't be unravelled," said Hugo, "they just have to be dropped. The trouble with you, Jake, is that you want to understand everything sympathetically. It can't be done. One must just blunder on. Truth lies in blundering on."

Overlong but good

Surprisingly touching and affectionate, alongside AM's usual trademark naivete, lack of self insight, judgemental personality, snobbishness, and unrealistic expectations. I had no idea these latterday books are so much fun.

Inspiring and interesting

…the man placed an Elmore Leonard paperback in front of me. And there it was: the America of Stax and Motown, George Jones and Grover Washington Jr, present in fiction as it simply never is in the work of the major American moderns - Updike or Tyler or Bellow - all of whom seem possessed by the idea that it is the duty of an American writer to render the American experience into English literature.

Interesting and absorbing period piece

I pull him towards me, my eyes on his lips, he's a good-looking man, but he pushes me away too, because they all do, and then the room grows dark and spins. I am on the island. I am in the woods with Cormac. I am on the boat. I am on the farm with Harry. I am in London. I am in Rafe's apartment. I am in Sir's palace. I am on the football pitch. I am in Robbie's bedroom with him and Lauren. I am in a courtroom.

In job interviews they'd ask me, What's your greatest weakness? and I'd explain that I probably spend a good portion of the workday terrorized by thoughts I'm forced to think, possessed by a nameless and formless demon, so if that's going to be an issue, you might not want to hire me.

Tremendous