2008-07-17 Green follows his standardrecipe

Simon Green has a way with words, and his imagination can create creatures and monsters like few others. And this novel is no exception.
Apart from that this novel is disappointing.

Simon Green follows his standard recipe : John Taylor is paid to find something and naturally succeed. A lot of very powerful beings want to stop him, but whenever John Taylor gets into a tight corner he uses his gift. Why does Simon Green even bother to invent these terrible monsters, if all John Taylor need to do to deal with them is to use his gift for finding things?

Even John Taylors interaction with his companion on the mission is strangely flat and routine. Perhaps because we know from the start that a love affair with someone other than Susie Shooter is so out of character.

I liked "Hell to pay" but that story worked because there was a great plot with a lot of twists and surprises. "The unnatural inquirer" don't have such a plot and Simon Greens talent for witty dialogue is not enough in itself. Perhaps the Nightside series has come to an end.