Christopher Ward is a writer with a problem. He potters his lonely
way about his huge house in the knowledge that his books are no
longer selling as they did - he is an author who is deeply out of
fashion. As he struggles with his latest novel, writer's block
takes a deeper and deeper hold, and he turns to the comforts of
alcohol in the attempt to blot out the growing problems. Yet
suddenly the words flow, and we read his novel alongside the story
of his struggle. But is Ward really writing it? He remembers
nothing and mysterious shadows and lights in his office further
deepen the mystery, as do the phone calls to prostitutes he can't
remember making and the visits to the cinema he fails to recall. Is
he losing his mind, or is something far more sinister happening?
This offering from the prolific Hutson (over 40 books so far, in
various guises) is a mixture of his horror and thriller writing,
but the horror largely takes a back seat. For long stretches the
book-within-a-book dominates and only towards the end does the more
familiar Hutson emerge as he tries to drag the story back to Edgar
Allan Poe territory. It's a hybrid in both name and nature, and
Hutson's fans may be disappointed by the lack of gore. But it's
still well worth reading for the cleverness of the plotting and the
sheer page-turning compulsion of the climactic section. (Kirkus UK)
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