The Other Side of Night by Adam Hamdy

 

This isn't a crappy horror novel. It's mostly a bad science fiction novel disguised as a mediocre crime novel. It has the latter's addiction to twists and revelations instead of plot, and it has the former's gee-whiz attitude to the impossible. It's not a very good novel, it's too British for me to know if the characters or dialogue or setting hold up, but the prose itself is kinda stolid and occasionally clunky. The story itself kinda maunders around between various timelines, only settling down in the second half when the science fiction emerges from the shadows and things go wildly off the rails. I guess if I'd seen that Hamdy had ghostwritten for Patterson I'd have left the book on the library shelf. Oops and oh well, at least it wasn't so bad I didn't finish it.