People of the night

"The people of the night" of John M. Ford is an extraordinary novel about the game of intelligence and human betrayal, weaving the past and the present in the atmosphere of Sassens.

Nicholas Hansard is a talented historian from a small college in New England. This is the external part of his career, and the hidden consists in working on the white group - the "research and advisory agency" with shadow ties in the government. In cooperation with them, Hansard exposes the secrets of old and new documents - and manifests itself as a brilliant decoder.

But profitable work has many pitfalls. Thanks to her, it turns out: one of the friends and colleagues of Hansard, Dr. Allan Berenson is a Russian spy. And then Berenson dies under mysterious circumstances. The shocked Hansard escapes the world of literature and plunges into the study of the old manuscript, which may belong to the pen of Christopher Marlo himself. The scientist is sure: nowhere is it impossible to hide from gloomy secrets and murders of our time than in the lost play of 400 years ago ...
He has never been so mistaken yet.

"" people of the night " - a novel in the spirit of the British espionage thrillers in the middle of the century, without fantastic assumptions, but with the lost play Christopher Marlo in the center of the plot. From the point of view of marketing, this is a book of the level of "names of the rose". Suffice it: "We have a damn ingenious writer who, in his book, combined a high culture with a low" ". - Neil Gaiman

"This novel, combining the modernity and intrigues of the Renaissance, is part of Ford"s re -open heritage, the Fantasy World Laureate ... Ford turns historical speculations about Marlowe and a conspiracy to kill Queen Elizabeth into a bizarre mixture of deadly game and high technology - In what will love both lovers of espionage novels and connoisseurs of alternative genres. " - Publishers Weekly

"In this book, full of black humor and dynamic contractions, with a certain cosmopolitan weight and fuel in matters of ethics and utilitarianism, there is nothing superfluous: only the alternation of touching and dramatic scenes with evil action." - Locus

"Direct hit in the world of death and betrayal. Ford"s thin artistic work, cunning and complex. " - The Mystery Fancier

"The plot with a light admixture of Tom Clans, but the style is completely and completely John M. Ford. In the novel, all the necessary elements of the thriller are collected in a more or less familiar scheme, but are built at such a strange angle that they form something completely different. " - Science Blogs

"Miraculous kaleidoscope of imagination". - Paul Anderson

"extraordinary ... simultaneously original and dazzling." - The Cleveland Plain Dealer