US author Ball is slowly building an intriguing body of work that stands head and shoulders apart from much of what his contemporaries in the noir field are doing, having completed with this volume an intricate trilogy in which an unnamed city is the main character. Explored in The Vaults and Scorch City, his plots flirt with SF, comic strip tropes and unveil what could be the even darker side of a Gotham City in which greed, power, corruption and money dictate the agenda and unerringly pump blood and fear through the veins of the city's streets. The struggles of an investigative journalist to understand his shifting environment anchor the tale with echoes of Kafka, Philip K. Dick, Orwell and Hammett. It's the 60s but not as we've known it. Hypnotic and gripping stuff well worth the full immersion effort required. ~ Maxim Jakubowski
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The year is 1965, and the City is a hulking shell of itself. Bohemians, crooks, and snarling anti-Communists have their run of the place, but if Nathan Canada has his way, all this decline and decadence will soon be nothing but a distant memory. His New City Project will paper over the grit and the grime, making the City safe for the rich.
According to Canada and his influential allies, the project is the City's last best hope-but according to everyone else in town, it's a death knell. So when the Project's cache of explosives goes missing, everyone is a suspect, and police detective Torsten Grip finds himself up against a ticking clock and a wall of silence. Meanwhile journalist Frank Frings, the last honest man in the City, sets out to find his friend's grandson, who has gotten himself involved with Kollectiv 61, a radical group that Grip believes holds the key to the investigation.
Invisible Streets features in the following genres: Thriller and Suspense, Fiction, Action Adventure, eBooks of the Month, Recommendations
Invisible Streets is available in Paperback, Hardback, Ebook
Invisible Streets was written by Toby Ball and published by Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd
