‘Life happens’
‘Life happens’
Houstonvoice.com, TX
Gay novelist Christopher Rice settles down and sobers up, and his new book lets it shine
By JOHNNY HOOKS
Friday, March 25, 2005
At the beginning of Christopher Rice’s new novel, “Light Before Day,” a crystal meth lab tucked inside a filthy doublewide trailer in Northern California explodes in a ball of fire. A teacher searching for her student is killed.
The action jumps to the West Hollywood area of Los Angeles, where we are introduced to Adam Murphy, a boozy writer for Glitz magazine who gets fired over a story about a marine helicopter pilot who flew his aircraft into the Pacific.
Murphy is in love with Corey, who disappears and is thought to be a victim of the West Hollywood Slasher. After landing a job with mystery writer James Wilton, Murphy and Wilton search for answers. The search leads them to drug dealers, a meth assassin, pedophiles and hustlers, all ending in a hail of bullets.
“Light Before Day” is a novel that is lightning fast and in your face with its honest take on the seedy side of gay culture in Los Angeles. As with the first two Rice novels, the author weaves seemingly unrelated people and places with surreal events to create a terrifically rich tapestry.
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posted by Tom Jackson @ Monday, March 28, 2005
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