DIVA homicide detective tries to stop an ex–FBI agent’s murderous rampage/div DIVThough they posture themselves as revolutionary, the jammers are harmless. Radio nerds who gather each night at a nightclub called Wireless, they get their kicks by jamming commercial radio signals, hijacking their frequencies to broadcast anarchist messages to the ordinary citizens of Quinsigamond. But even though they do no harm, their hobby has attracted murderous attention./divDIV /divDIVSpeer’s killing spree starts with a priest. The one-time seminary student and ex–FBI agent has tired of seeing the city’s cathedral denigrated by immigrants, addicts, and gang members, and he blames Father Todorov for catering to the undesirables. He corners the priest in the confessional and takes out his rage with a Bowie knife. Now he wants the blood of the fiery young anarchists who hijack his radio dial each evening. Homicide detective Hannah Shaw must infiltrate this strange subculture before it is dismantled by Speer’s blade./divDIV/div

ジャック・オコンネルが描く架空都市クインシガモンドは、悪夢とリアリズムが混ざり合う唯一無二の迷宮です。本作の真髄は、電波という不可視の戦場を舞台にした、狂気と自由の壮絶な衝突にあります。単なる追跡劇を超え、情報の氾濫と個人の孤独を鋭く抉り出す筆致は、ノワール文学の枠を超えた文学的深淵を私たちに見せてくれます。 歪んだ純潔を求める殺人鬼と、深夜のラジオに魂を託す無垢な破壊者たち。対極の存在を繋ぐ「ノイズ」は、現代社会の歪みそのものです。刑事ハンナがその深層へと分け入る過程で、読者は孤独な魂が放つ閃光を目撃するでしょう。闇を震わせる電波の奔流に呑み込まれるような、鮮烈で情熱的な読書体験がここにあります。