Sleeper Beach

Hugely entertaining . . . the narrator writes like Raymond Chandler

We loved the first Titanium Noir novel from Nick Harkaway here at New Scientist, set in a world where the megarich can take a drug that stops them from ageing, but grows them to huge - titanic - proportions. In this latest from Harkaway, who's fresh from continuing his father John Le Carré's legacy in Karla's Choice, he tells the story of detective and Titan Cal, who is investigating the murder of a young woman in a rundown holiday town

This is a tightly woven, very well written novel in the best Harkaway tradition

A gripping, genre-blending story from the author of Karla's Choice

Like the best fictional PIs, Cal doesn't just care about catching criminals . . . another satisfying dose of science fictional noir

I like where this series is heading and how it has become this fascinating and unexpected dissertation on class and capital

[A] nifty fusion of crime and sci-fi . . . In a novel teeming with memorable characters, Harkaway handles the blend of genres with skill and pizzazz

After resurrecting characters created by his father, John le Carré, in last year's spy thriller Karla's Choice, Harkaway returns to his characteristic territory of "crime with a sci-fi twist"