Noir Falling: A Bizarre Mystery of Art and the Mind
COME SWIM WITH THE WEIRD FISH
Daniel Lowe, a presence but not a student at the prestigious University, keeps finding himself in strange situations, not sure how he got there. Color whorls devour people and places, a beautiful woman in a null space called The Blank asks him to save her from her corporate magnate husband, and dozens of missing students might somehow relate to these calamities. With companions such as Chuck Adair, a member of a philosophical Society that crams his head full of big ideas early on, and Voice, a young woman sprung from his head, he traverses hallucinatory landscapes, the interiors of famous paintings, and more on his quest to figure out where a growing mass of “clues” will lead.
Noir Falling is a horror story with doppelgangers, living statues, relentless stalkers, and an unstable reality that could betray Daniel at any moment. Noir Falling is noir, a dark, pulpy mystery like novels and films from the 1930s and 40s, with a femme fatale and clues that lead from small events to a dark, international corporate conspiracy, and Daniel is a detective—sort of—asked to unravel the affair. Noir Falling is an adventure, a quest, and Daniel is a hero who must face many adversaries on his path not only to save the damsel in distress and others, but to uncover truths about existence and, ultimately, himself. Noir Falling is a surreal mindbender that might make your head explode.
“Noir Falling is a fever dream of philosophical quandaries, wrapped in delicious writing that kept me eagerly reading until the last page. Brilliant.” —M Ennenbach, author of Cuckoo
“I really enjoyed L. Andrew Cooper’s new novel! Mix a fast-paced adventure with elements of cosmic horror, spice it up with memorable characters and great humor, then serve it with a glass of the finest art history, philosophy, and aesthetic theory and you get the gourmet literary meal that is Noir Falling. Cooper masterfully mixes the intellectual with the bizarre in ways that are thought provoking while never slowing down the action. I loved the book and kept thinking it would make a great film or television series.” —Kendall Phillips, author of No One Can Save Us
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Noir Falling is a companion to L. Andrew Cooper’s Crazy Time: A Bizarre Battle with Darkness and the Divine, a novel that moves further into the horror spectrum, and Cooper’s series The Middle Reaches also features the corporation MFS and the character Young Torrents, central to the stories of both Crazy Time and Noir Falling. The stories connect to one another, but though understanding The Middle Reaches requires reading its four cycles in sequence, the order in which you read Crazy Time, Noir Falling, and The Middle Reaches is up to you. Each offers a very different journey.
SECOND EDITION! On a dark urban highway, bright, introspective thirtysomething Lily Henshaw survives a brutal attack by men who announce that “It’s Crazy Time!” and kill her friends. Months later, still crushed by survivor’s guilt, Lily suffers another serious trauma—and another, and another, and another. She becomes convinced she is cursed like Job from the Bible, but unlike Job, she doesn’t assume God is the good guy. Read more!
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What begins with a group of friends seeking the truth about an old disappearance leads into a dark and increasingly expansive journey through a dark realm called “The Middle Reaches” and beyond. As new characters and mysteries emerge, the paths established in earlier cycles continue to intersect, gradually revealing a larger story.
