Night Train - Softcover

"Deliciously readable ... Martin Amis has created a stylized replica of the hard-boiled detective story ... a quick-silver narrative that never lets go." --The New York Times

"Night Train pushes the boundaries of noir almost to the edge of darkness." --Time

"Brilliantly written, with an emotional force that will tear your heart out ... " --The Calgary Sun

..". compelling ... Night Train is an entertaining take on the American detective novel, a potent cocktail of violence and stylized dialogue flavoured by an unexpected existential twist." --Matt Cohen, The Globe and Mail

"A work of dark romanticism, a tale of possession ... prose crackling with wit and invention." --The New York Times Book Review

"A small gem of a novel." --The Montreal Gazette

"Amis is arguably the greatest wordsmith living today, tossing of hundred-dollar words like spent matchsticks, with a scalding wit to go with it. Night Train is a tightly crafted and skilled work..." --Winnipeg Free Press

From the bestselling author of London Fields, The Information and Heavy Water comes this stylistically brilliant story. As riveting as the best of Elmore Leonard, Night Train is a gritty, totally captivating mystery about a female homicide detective and the one case that got under her skin.