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The Night Market

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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 Mieville, 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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    • Publisher's Weekly

      Starred review from October 23, 2017
      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. When SFPD Det. Ross Carver and his partner, Cleve Jenner, answer a late-night summons to an expensive home, they find something odd: a man’s body “that looked like gray moss. Like a carpet of it spread across a rot-shrunken log.” Hazmat-suited FBI agents take over the crime scene and send the two to a portable decontamination unit. Ross awakens in his bed days later with his mysterious neighbor, the beautiful Mia Westcott, attending to him. He has no memory of that night, only the sense that something is wrong and a lingering metallic scent to guide him. 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. Agent: Alice Martell, Martell Agency.

    • Publisher's Weekly

      May 28, 2018
      Moore’s unusual new novel is both a love story and a cyberpunk police procedural, read dramatically and with appealing sensitivity by actor Cronin. Set in a slightly futuristic San Francisco, it begins with detective Ross Carver and his partner Cleve Jenner being called to a horrific crime scene late at night and being confronted by cold and impersonal FBI agents in hazmat suits who force them into a decontamination shower. A few days later, Carver awakens in his apartment, where he is in the care of his neighbor, the beautiful Mia Westcott. He has no memory of the night he visited the crime scene or the days since; it turns out neither does Cleve. Cronin captures the detective’s mixture of groggy confusion over what happened to him and his curiosity about the mysterious Mia—he doesn’t quite trust her, but he wants to and hopes she can lead him to an explanation of his disturbing blackout. That she does, with considerable detection on his and Cleve’s part, but with the revelation comes the discovery of a massively malevolent plot. Cronin’s performance adds depth and dimension to Moore’s disturbing portrait of an honorable man and an empathic woman who take a stand against evil. A Houghton Mifflin Harcourt hardcover.

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