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Just Another Judgement Day (Nightside, Book 9) | 
| Author: Simon R. Green
Publisher: Ace Hardcover
Category: Book
List Price: $24.95
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Rating:  21 reviews
Sales Rank: 94645
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 272
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 8 x 5.4 x 1.2
ISBN: 044101674X
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.92
EAN: 9780441016747
ASIN: 044101674X
Publication Date: January 6, 2009
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There s a new sheriff in town, and he s got the Nightside s rich and powerful quaking in their boots. He s The Walking Man, and it s his mission to exorcise sinners with extreme prejudice. Problem is, the Nightside was built on sin and corruption, and The Walking Man makes no distinction between evildoers and those simply indulging themselves. He ll leave the place a wasteland unless someone stops him, and P.I. John Taylor has been handed the job. No known magic or science can affect The Walking Man, and if John can t discover his weakness, he ll be facing the very Wrath of God
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 Great additon to the Nightside series; Taylor takes on the Wrath of God June 23, 2009
K. Eckert (Minneapolis, MN)
This is book 9 in the Nightside series by Simon Green. I love this series and I loved this book. Last I heard there are going to be 12 books in this series; I hope it is more because I enjoy this series immensley.
The Nightside has a new Authority in place but the New Authories have a problem. Walker comes begging John Taylor to deal with it. You see the Walking Man is coming to the Nightside. The Walking Man is a human man that delivers the wrath of God upon humanity. The Walking man sees in black and whites, no greys. People are either bad or good and, the Nightside being what it is, everyone in it is in trouble. In fact the Walking Man is bent on destroying the whole darn place. The New Authorities need John to find the Walking Man and...deal with him.
This was a great book. As usual it opens with a small case that John Taylor and Shotgun Suzie have to solve; this case is just as interesting and creative as the rest of the book. These books continue to be wilding entertaining, bizarrely creative, and an all around great ride. I love the way Green throws in off-handed comments about the strangest things. Just the fact that the book starts in Strangefellows bar with The Tribe of Gay Barbarians doing the Cancan is enough to make me eagerly devour the whole book. Too bad it was over so quickly.
In this book Shotgun Suzie joins John for part of the journey but John's closest friend is a monster hunter from the Middle East named Chandra. Chandra is a great character. We learn even more about Walker and where his power originates. John and Suzie come to more of an understanding in their "relationship". Madness and mayhem are everywhere. And of course John has to face the Wrath of God.
These books continue to be hilarious, fast-paced, action packed, surprising, creative, and all around hugely entertaining. I was sad when it ended and am eagerly awaiting the next book.
 Enjoy his books but too expensive May 7, 2009
C. Boulanger (Ireland)
0 out of 8 found this review helpful
I really enjoy the series but this price should be $9.99, not over $14. No printing or physical shipping costs should make the costs structure much lower. Hopefully the author will get involved and talk to the publisher...
Another Good Nightside Novel, if Short April 5, 2009
G. Chance (Annandale, VA USA)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
What can I say that hasn't already been said here? After so many books, Green knows his Nightside, his Characters, and what his fans want. He delivers here for sure, bringing some favorite characters from the other novels out of the woodwork to battle an invincible(?) foe. We also get to see the new Authorities and what has happened to some other Players after the war, always fun. Green also manages to set us up for more books, as the protection the Nightside has enjoyed thanks to Lilith is starting to fade, what will come through next?
Overall a great, quick read. It is short, like many of the Nightside books, at only 272 pages, you will not be spending much time on it. If you can wait, I would recommend getting an omnibus version from SFBC.com (how I got into the series in the first place), but, if you are like me, you can't wait. Just get it now and scratch that itch.
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Just Another Judgement Day March 23, 2009
J. Williams (VA.Beach, Virginia)
Simon R. Green does not disappoint his readers. This is a great book of a Great series.I love the series and recommend it to any one who likes Urban Paranormal Noir. I hope he continues John Taylor's adventures.
A welcome return to the Nightside March 22, 2009
Timothy Fitzgerald (Austin, Texas)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Having read all the Nightside books and branching out to the Secret History series, Simon Green was starting to read a bit stale. While still good reads and full of fresh and interesting ideas, the last Nightside book (as well as the second SH) seemed kinda formulaic, John Taylor paint by numbers if you will.
Green seemed to just be throwing out new characters and fresh ideas just as scenery while Taylor strolled around, all of them having very little to no impact on the story or main character. Characters like Walker and Suzie were just kinda there, and the plot kinda felt very "been there, done that".
So I was pleasantly surprised to find the 9th book in the Nightside to be the best in a while. It is hard to say it is better than the middle trilogy, as that story and the individual books were all just quality jaunts through the Nightside from top to bottom. However, I would say that it is the best of the latter trilogy, and if not for the excellent Agents of Light and Darkness, better than the first trilogy as well.
What makes the new book so interesting is bringing back some real emotional investment for John Taylor. The new character introduced, The Walking Man, God's Wrath personified, places John in very interesting moral situations. He is killing evil people, but the Nightside is filled with Grey characters so where does John draw the line?
In addition to that added moral conundrum, John is also left reeling from some unexpected and unwelcomed attention and news from Walker. Walker is by far the best supporting character in the Nightside, and the relationship between he and John has always been complicated, but the new book adds a new wrinkle that deepens their connection even further.
Add in your usual array of random and creative Green beasties and baddies, and you have one satisfying romp through the Nightside. The book convinces me the Nightside still has some legs left in it (which I was seriously doubting after the Unnatural Inquirer) as well as returning John to the more heroic Champion of the Nightside role he enjoyed in earlier books. Still a hero who does not mind throwing salt in a guys face before kicking him in the balls...but a hero nonetheless!
more of a 4.5 star review, but hard to rate it a full 5 stars.
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