The Visor

"Funny...Horrifying...Astonishing...Unrelentingly gripping. A surreal journey through trauma and its aftermath."

"The Old Tailor had stared at the space left by the young woman as she left the workshop, and it had seemed as though there was a faint trail left by those eyes like car headlights on a slow film photograph taken at night...He had not believed such a thing was possible..."

A man walks alone out of Gare du Nord, Paris. In the final years of the human era, he seeks anonymity and refuge amongst the lost of Paris, Montmartre, hiding from the consequences of a terrifying past and from himself most of all. Gradually piecing together his relationship with an extraordinary cast of characters and worlds, we discover a Paris, and indeed a Europe, that is both fantastic and worryingly familiar. Waters, walls and temperatures are rising, and time is literally out of control...

Whether one thinks of The Visor as fantasy, science fiction, crime thriller, historical drama or heart-breaking tragedy, events come thick and fast across the many worlds and multiple times of this rich and troubling novel. At its heart is a conundrum: Is heroism a choice or an obligation and if it is the latter and were you to somehow avoid that obligation, would you ever truly recover?

The Visor's style has been compared to Pynchon's "Gravity's Rainbow", Hemingway and J. G. Ballard. With such a range of comparisons, The Visor promises nothing less than an imaginary tour de force guaranteed to leave the reader wanting more.