Master of mood delivers another winner
The Laughing Monsters. By Denis Johnson. Harvill Secker, €17. Reviewed by Kevin Power.
Denis Johnson’s lean new novel comes on like a proper thriller, and it moves so swiftly that you’re pulled along as if you were reading a bulky airport paperback. We open in Freetown, Sierra Leone. The time is recent – pre-Ebola, but post-9/11. Our man in Freetown is Roland Nair: white, late 30s, alcoholic, deeply paranoid. Roland travels light – “I’m all ...
