Just Another Judgement Day

Nightside, Book 9

By: Simon R. Green

Narrated by: Dan Calley

I'm John Taylor. I work as a PI out of the Nightside, that secret center of London where clocks always read three AM, where terrible things happen with predictable regularity, and where the always-dark streets are full of people partying like Judgement Day will never come.

Now it may have arrived. God's own enforcer, the righteous engine of destruction known as the Walking Man, has come to the Nightside. He's a being whose sole purpose is the elimination of the wicked and the guilty—and given the nature of the Nightside, there's a good chance that once he gets started, he'll just keep on until there's no one left.

So the Authorities have hired me to stop him. Legend has it that he can't be killed. I'm very much hoping that the legend isn't true . . .

©2009 Simon R. Green (P)2022 Tantor

Big Action

probably one of the most suspenseful stories told. did not know what would happen next and was pleasantly surprised by the ending. excellent story.

Good story

This was a good story that went by very quickly.
I am looking forward to hearing book 9.5 😃

Tantalizing

loved it all the way to end. I read the book while I was deployed in the Marine Corps.

It’s the beige trenchcoat vs the white trenchcoat

The formula did nothing for me here. This installment is pretty much 100% the John Taylor show, without Deadboy, Razor Eddie, or the more interesting side characters. The only other regulars here are the new leaders of the Nightside, The Authorities, and Walker being Walker. Snore.

The last book was The Remover; this book is The Walking Man. Once again, the plot involves an unstoppable boogeyman that everyone in Nightside fears, even though he’d never been mentioned in before in the series.There’s a half-hearted premise about this guy being God’s enforcer … but this guy ends up being just another schmuck on a revenge trip, revelling in “dead men and women and dogs … and children in cages.” It matters not whether innocents are hurt, so long as he gets his pounds of flesh. Per usual, the bad guy is just a two-dimensional set piece.

Also per usual, we’re introduced to colorful characters and given info dumps on their histories, so they can be killed minutes later as proof of how unstoppable the new big bad is. Which might have meaning
if we didn’t already know that John will take him out with little effort … or to use John’s catchphrase …
“it was the easiest thing in the world.” Even the weapon giving John his magical easy-button to victory is recycled. This installment is just empty calories.