"The book\'s tone is Chandleresque, the conspiracy worrying Carver and Jenner expands to Pynchonian proportions, and the physical ick they encounter might have oozed out of a Cronenberg movie."-- Washington Post "It\'s Miami Vice meets The Matrix , and George Orwell is hosting the party."-- Pittsburgh Post-Gazette It\'s late Thursday and Inspector Ross Carver is at a crime scene: a dead man covered in an unknown substance that\'s eating through h. "The book\'s tone is Chandleresque, the conspiracy worrying Carver and Jenner expands to Pynchonian proportions, and the physical ick they encounter might have oozed out of a Cronenberg movie."-- Washington Post "It\'s Miami Vice meets The Matrix , and George Orwell is hosting the party."-- Pittsburgh Post-Gazette It\'s late Thursday and Inspector Ross Carver is at a crime scene: a dead man covered in an unknown substance that\'s eating through h
