The Night Market - by Jonathan Moore (Paperback)

About the Book

From an author who consistently gives us "suspense that never stops" (James Patterson), a near-future thriller that makes your most paranoid fantasies seem like child's play.

Book Synopsis

"The book's tone is Chandleresque, the conspiracy worrying Carver and Jenner expands to Pynchonian proportions, and the physical ick they encounter might have oozed out of a Cronenberg movie."--Washington Post

"It's Miami Vice meets The Matrix, and George Orwell is hosting the party."--Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

It's late Thursday and Inspector Ross Carver is at a crime scene: a dead man covered in an unknown substance that's eating through his skin. Suddenly, six FBI agents burst in and haul Carver outside and into a disinfectant trailer, where he's shocked unconscious. On Sunday he wakes up in his own bed, his neighbor Mia--who he's barely spoken to--by his side. He can't remember the past three days. Mia says police officers brought him home and told her he'd been poisoned. Carver can't disprove her, but his gut says to keep her close.
A mind-bending, masterfully plotted thriller--"like Blade Runner if it were written by Charles de Lint or Neil Gaiman"*--The Night Market follows Carver as he works to find out what happened to him, soon realizing he's entangled in a massive web of conspiracy. And that Mia knows a lot more than she lets on.

"Mystery and thriller readers will find much to love here, but fans of science fiction also should embrace this incredible work."--Bookreporter

*Publishers Weekly, starred review

Review Quotes

Praise for The Night Market Named an Exciting Mystery/Thriller of Winter 2018 by Bookish Named an iBooks Most Anticipated Mystery/Thriller of Winter 2018 Named a Best Mystery of 2018 by Maxim Jakuboswki, CrimeTime "A grim and gripping tale of well-earned paranoia...Moore, an attorney, uses his tight-lipped prose to fine effect... The book's tone is Chandleresque, the conspiracy worrying Carver and Jenner expands to Pynchonean proportions, and the physical ick they encounter might have oozed out of a Cronenberg movie. But on the whole, I'll wager, 'The Night Market' and its predecessors, 'The Poison Artist' and 'The Dark Room, ' are like nothing you've ever read. In his acknowledgments, Moore sums up the novels as 'a three-panel painting of San Francisco.' As done, he might have added, by Hieronymus Bosch." -- Washington Post "Are you one of the many who have cleared their Netflix queue of good television crime drama? Still trying to scratch that sci-fi itch as you wait for 'Westworld' to return? Well, Jonathan Moore's latest thriller The Night Market will satiate both desires and satisfy both itches immediately...It's "Miami Vice" meets "The Matrix," and George Orwell is hosting the party. What keeps The Night Market chugging along are those Crockett and Tubbs moments between Carver and Jenner. Mr. Moore's handling of the partnership exemplifies the chemistry that you'd expect from two battle-scarred vets. The chapters that revolve around their relationship are ones that you won't want to end...The reader is invested in every little moment of Carver's detective work. Mr. Moore does such smooth work when describing Ross' deductive mind that you buy that he's been on the force as long as his five years from mandatory retirement indicates. His self-confidence along with how he handles himself in every situation creates a protagonist one can easily get behind...In between the melding of sci-fi and crime noir, the glue that holds it all together is the engaging relationship between Carter and Mia. Their budding romance isn't forced or mushy, but is developed very organically throughout the book. It never interferes with the looming mystery and helps to cultivate more questions." --Pittsburgh Post-Gazette "As upsetting and revealing a book as you are likely to read in this or any year...Mystery and thriller readers will find much to love here, but fans of science fiction also should embrace this incredible work." -- Bookreporter.com "If you're looking for a good book to curl up with and lull you to sleep, don't read Jonathan Moore's The Night Market--it'll keep you awake all night... In the vein of stories by Blake Crouch or China Mieville, The Night Market completes what Moore calls a 'three-panel painting of San Francisco--a single work, loosely connected.' Reading the other books in Moore's series--The Poison Artist andThe Dark Room--isn't necessary, but once you've read this one, you'll be compelled to seek them out anyway. Just be prepared to lose some sleep while reading them." -- Bookpage "In THE NIGHT MARKET, Jonathan Moore is masterful at sustaining cutting-edge suspense. The undertones of conspiracy and speculative science fiction blend perfectly with that suspense to make this a phenomenal thriller." -- FreshFiction.com "A sharp and scary near-future thriller that delivers a dark message about society's love affair with technology...Unsettling, stylish noir...[The] utterly shocking revelations in the third act are the stuff of nightmares. You'll never look at a flock of sparrows the same way again." --Kirkus, starred "Outstanding...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." --Publishers Weekly, starred "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. The meandering pace serves to keep the reader wanting more as each clue unearthed leads the characters closer to a frightening, all-pervasive truth...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 futuristic conspiracy with horrifying implications...Thought-provoking." --Booklist "What a talent this author has for creating setting and atmosphere...Clever, unique, and unpredictable." --A Book and a Cup of Tea "[Moore] has a knack for evoking the stuff of nightmares which has me hooked from the first page." --Maxim Jakubowski, CrimeTime Praise for Jonathan Moore's The Dark Room A Library Journal "Essential Thriller" of January 2017 An iBooks Best Book of January 2017 A Northern Virginia Magazine Best New Release of January 2017 "Moore channels the moody intensity of Raymond Chandler's crime fiction and saturates The Dark Room with the brooding cinematic qualities of the mid-20th century's black-and-white film noir genre...The Dark Room will prompt readers unfamiliar with Moore to seek out his other works, including The Poison Artist, which Stephen King describes as electrifying. " -- The Washington Post "Smart plotting. Nary a false note. Suspense that never stops. If you like Michael Connelly's novels, you will gobble up Jonathan Moore's The Dark Room." --James Patterson "Complex, well-crafted thriller... Moore--an attorney and author of three previous novels, including The Poison Artist and Redheads, which was short-listed for the Bram Stoker Award--infuses the complicated tale with richly detailed forensic facts and procedural expertise that would make [Kathy] Reichs proud. At the same time, he makes a concerted effort to craft characters you can care about." --BookPage "An engaging and thoroughly contemporary mystery...The Dark Room is a worthy introduction to Moore's work, and will soon have you seeking out his earlier titles (like The Poison Artist or Redheads) while waiting for his next crime novel." --Bookgasm "Exuding noirish elements and utilizing the city's mean streets to their full, atmospheric effect, The Dark Room oozes dastardly deeds from blackmail to murder - and beyond." --The Seattle Review of Books "The Dark Room is a complex, edgy, eleg

About the Author

JONATHAN MOORE is the author of five books. Before completing law school in New Orleans, he was a teacher, a bar owner, a counselor at a wilderness camp for juvenile delinquents, and an investigator for a criminal defense attorney.