Title: Amis takes you into the night, and leaves you there
Product review: An incredibly weak effort from a stylist and humorist of genius, 'Night Train' simply rejigs themes and ideas found in earlier books (the musings about the relative importance of motive in police investigations are directly lifted from 'The Information') and attatches them to a cliched, uninteresting narrative. The prose is somehow both crude and over-stylized - it seems like the work of a pop-song lyricist rather than a crime novelist (or a literary novelist) - and the extraordinarily bleak resolution really is very hard to swallow.
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