2019 title, new to the U.S., first crime outing from a cult author To be followed by House With No Doors Occult plus glam rock themes! The crime centers on a fictional glam rock figure, King Lost, and his fans Guardian says "Echoes of David Bowie's Ziggy Stardust and Aladdin Sane are perhaps inevitable in the fictional King Lost, and Noon has a Ballardian understanding of the intoxicating magic of celebrity, and its impact on a text. He masterfully casts the spell of Bell's dark glamour with tinctures of Bowie - his absence rather than his presence - as well as shades of Marc Bolan and Richey Edwards." THE AUTHOR : Known for his game-changing SF novels (he made his name in the 90s w/the avant-garde SF Vurt series, and has more recently written the highly acclaimed Nyquist mysteries), Jeff Noon has turned his hand to crime fiction, while still writing crime fiction reviews for the Spectator. The Nyquist series ( A Man of Shadows, The Body Library, Creeping Jenny, Within Without ) is published in the US by Random House and has been praised by trade reviewers as well as Vanity Fair, New Yorker, Warren Ellis, Adrian Tchaikovsky, and more THE READERSHIP: For fans of smart crime fiction - for early Rankin adopters; for fans of SERIAL and TRUE DETECTIVE. THE COMPS: For brilliant plotting: THE WHISPER MAN (10.5k HB TCM); for its expert police procedural narrative: ALL THAT'S DEAD (20K HB TCM); for complex family dynamics, THE FAMILY UPSTAIRS (25K HB TCM).