Cliff Burns
SO DARK THE NIGHT is a tightly crafted novel, a work that was three years in creation. I have been a professional author for almost 25 years and I feel that this novel--and its followup, OF THE NIGHT--are the finest efforts I've ever committed to paper. Read the first 10 or 12 pages, meet two of the most endearing protagonists you're likely to come across this year. By turns scary and funny, SO DARK THE NIGHT is an homage to the night time world celebrated in film noir: dark street corners and twisting passageways, a labyrinth complete with monsters. Fans of Raymond Chandler, James Crumley, Jonathan Carroll and Neil Gaiman will find much to their liking as they explore my two "Ilium" novels. My solemn promise to readers is never to bore them and it's a vow I've done my best to keep for more than two decades...