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Midnight ReviewMIDNIGHT is, in case you don't already know, the sequel to Nightfall, the first in what I gather will be a trilogy featuring the British private-eye, Jack Nightingale, once a crack hostage negotiator for London's Metropolitan Police. The series is author Stephen Leather's dalliance with occult thriller writing.
In NIGHTFALL, Jack abruptly discovers that his biological father was the recently-deceased Ainsley Gosling, a Satanist who sold Nightingale's soul to the devil Proserpine, the debt to be called due on Jack's thirty-third birthday only a few days away. Nightingale's negotiating skills are tested to the utmost as he endeavors to wiggle-out of Ol' Dad's pact.
Now, in MIDNIGHT, Jack learns that he has a hitherto unknown half-sister also fathered by Gosling. Similarly, Ainsley bartered her soul to the devil Frimost in exchange for a life of sexual success with the world's most beautiful women. (Who says men aren't total pigs?) The pay-off to Frimost comes due on the woman's thirty-third birthday now two years away. Since she's now the only "family" Nightingale has in the world, he becomes determined to save her much as he saved himself. (Who says chivalry is dead?) A small problem - he must first find out her name and location. It doesn't help that the message "Your sister is going to hell, Jack Nightingale" appears at random times written on various surfaces or spoken by complete strangers; it keeps up the pressure.
During the first few chapters of MIDNIGHT, which seemed to be nothing more than a rehash of Jack's own recent predicament, I began to expect that soon enough our hero would discover that Gosling had also sold off to one devil or another the soul of Jack's poncy pet Shih Tzu. Except that Jack currently has no furred, feathered, or finned pal. (Well, maybe in the next book.) In any case, the story got more interesting when Nightingale learns his sis isn't a rosy-cheeked pillar of the community dispensing home-made cookies to the neighborhood kids, and even more engaging still when he starts dialing-up specialized help to get her a quality life.
More than anything else, MIDNIGHT is a bridge to the final book in the series. This second installment leaves at least four open-ended subplots and, for that reason, isn't as satisfying as it could have been. But, when the terminal episode is published, I'll buy it for no other reason than to have answered the question, "Stephen, where are you going with this?" Or, more urgently perhaps, does Jack give up smoking? I mean, what's with the Marlboro fixation? I could almost hear the "Magnificent Seven/Marlboro Man" theme play as I absorbed the text.
Your readers are going to hell, Stephen Leather - or perhaps, if Joe Bennett can be believed in Mustn't Grumble: In Search of England and the English, only as far as Land's End.Midnight OverviewJack Nightingale found it hard enough to save lives when he was a cop. Now he needs to save a soul - his sister's. But to save her he has to find her and they've been separated since birth. When everyone Jack talks to about his sister dies horribly, he realises that someone, or something, is determined to keep them apart. If he's going to save his sister, he's going to have to do what he does best - negotiate. But any negotiation with the forces of darkness comes at a terrible price. And first Jack must ask himself the question: is every soul worth saving?

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