Rating: 5 stars (Spotlight Review)

Ninth in the Nightside novels …

Only a certain type of man can become a Walking Man. That man must have everything on earth he truly values suddenly and violently ripped away from him … and most importantly, in his eyes, unjustfully so. With nothing left to lose and everything to gain, those men make a deal with God to be his man, and punish the guilty. As such, Walking Men personify the wrath of God.

There are some perks to the job: you don’t have to think much. A Walking Man’s job is merely to separate the sinners from the innocent, and to send the sinners on to be judged. There’s no grey area. There’s no room for mercy – that’s another department. Judgment – another department. It’s all black and white.

Now The Walking Man has come to The Nightside, and The Nightside is running scared.

…because to the Walking Man, it’s all black there.

Simon Green takes an unexpected canvas to illustrate the dangers of tunnel vision, and works wonders with the range available with his Nightside characters. The author masterfully allows the main characters, and readers, to feel the danger of falling into the trap of black and white thinking with the premise of a child/puppy snuff film farm scene, seeing it from both directions; first white with feeling the horror of all of the unnecessary destruction and killing, then black when finding out the true motives of the ‘farm.’ And then, he yanks us back into the shades-of-grey reality in which all of we, and The Nightside, exist.

I truly wish I could go into more detail, but I don’t want to give spoilers. In this case, the skill of the author almost surpasses the plot. Go read!
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SBN: 978-0-441-01674-7
Publication January 6, 2009, by Ace