Everybody Comes To The Nightside

I love the nightside! It is a great series of books. Sarcastic, stuff born of nightmares.. John Taylor is a great charactor. LOVE these books. My fave charater is Dead Boy!

Simon Green is a wonderful British writer who creates a unique and fascinating world with his novels of the Nightside. This particular volume has the first three books in that series, and it is considerably cheaper than buying each of those books separately. An awesome read and an excellent deal!

Welcome to the world of John Taylor, a London based private eye that can find ANYTHING. Yet despite this talent John hasn't exactly prospered, mainly because he's not from round here. John was born in the Nightside, a hidden part of London where the misfits and deadbeats end up after falling through the cracks. A place where Gods and Demons hang out when people stop believing in them. A place that despite being home got just a bit too dangerous, so John ran for it. But circumstances conspire to force him back, in order to find the missing daughter of his client, John has to go home where he hooks up with some old and extremely nasty friends, the love of his life, the homicidal Shotgun Suzie, who did shoot him once, but he didn't take it personally and Razor Eddie the punk god of the straight razor a malodorous being who does good by hacking the bad into a piles of bloody pieces, who currently owes John a favour and REALLY doesn't like it. With friends like these who needs enemies but John has plenty of these too, some of whom he knows, others who remain hidden and mostly want him dead. To confuse matters John's not too sure why, but it may have something to do with his mother, whoever or whatever she may be. All he knows is that the few people who do know are so scared of her they won't talk, even to him. Welcome to the Nightside, the illegitimate offspring of Dashiell Hammett and H P Lovecraft. Welcome to an original world of neatly crafted characters in well focused stories. Simon Green does not write the bloated doorstops beloved of some of his contemporaries, but this is no bad thing. Welcome to the dark zone, you'll like it so much you may not want to leave.

Everybody Comes to the Nightside, by Simon R. Green is actually a Science Fiction Book Club 3-in-1 book including originally published: Something From the Nightside, Agents of Light and Darkness, and Nightingale's Lament. The Nightside books center on John Taylor, a private investigator who has special abilities that help him find things in a dark, magical place called the Nightside. My favorite passage that pretty much sums it up is from the forward in Nightingale's Lament: "My name is John Taylor. I've made that a name to be respected and feared, but it's also made me a target my whole life. I operate as a private eye, in a world where gods and monsters are real. The Nightside: the sick, secret magical heart of London. A place where dreams come true, whether you want them to or not. It's not easy to find a way in, and it can be even harder to find a way out. I can find anything, solve any mystery. Except the answers to the dark and deadly secrets of my own past. My name is John Taylor. And if you've come looking for me, either you're in trouble, or you're bound to be." In the first book, Something From the Nightside, a woman comes to John to ask him to find her daughter. They must travel to the dark and magical world of the Nightside, from where John has fled. The story incorporates dark humor, suspense, and horror, all wrapped up in an eerie mystery. This is my favorite in the series so far, simply because the Nightside is such a mystery and the slow reveal is great because it's such a new and different place. In the second book, Agents of Light and Darkness, the Nightside is already exposed to us, so Green can concentrate more on the plot, meanwhile still introducing new, creepy places within the city. A mysterious monk comes to John to ask him to find the Unholy Grail. Angels, demons, and everyone else dangerous seems to be searching for it as well. John teams up with Shotgun Suzie, a deadly assassin who once tried to kill him, for this disturbing tale. In Nightingale's Lament, the third book, Taylor is hired to find a famous singer in the Nightside whose audience seems to be committing suicide after her shows. Many more creepy (and yet fun) characters are introduced in this story that either aid or try to kill Taylor along the way. I love how these are written in a sort of classic pulp fiction detective novel, yet very fresh and fun.

This glittering mixture of suspense and fantasy will grab you and not let go