Lucifer's Dragon. Jon Courtenay Grimwood

Lucifer's Dragon stands on the corner smoking two cigarettes. It is a stylish and seedy thriller. Amidst a background ramshackle of generic Cyberpunk J.C.Grimwood has succeeded in creating a bright, bold and inventive world. Lucifer's Dragon belts along like a dominatrix high on PCP going mad with a cat-of-nine-tails. The prose and the premise are taut and cool. If anything the book's crime is that the characters although strong are little too familiar, and that the plot once established ends up becoming somewhat predictable. It won't change your life, but it does entertain. If you like Richard Morgan, you should like this. I enjoyed it enough to buy another of his books.