Background
Meaney grew up in London and Slough, England with his brother Colm (who is not the same as the Star Trek actor Colm Meaney).
(In this darkly luminous thriller, John Meaney blends grit...)
In this darkly luminous thriller, John Meaney blends gritty futuristic noir with gothic fantasy to create a stunningly seductive world of death and desire. Here an honest cop must face his own darkest impulses as he hunts a perverse killer through a city of the dead. There have been four celebrity murders already. Now it’s up to Lieutenant Donal Riordan to make sure that Tristopolis isn’t the scene of a fifth. But the necropolis’s vast underground network is already mobilizing for a battle of epic proportions against a powerful death cult whose dark influence reaches up to the highest echelons of Tristopolis’s elite. Riordan’s only hope is an unlikely alliance with a para-live female agent as they hunt—both aboveground and below—among gargoyles and zombies, spirit slaves and assassins, for the killers even the dead have reason to fear.
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Meaney grew up in London and Slough, England with his brother Colm (who is not the same as the Star Trek actor Colm Meaney).
Meaney originally studied at Birmingham University and holds a combined degree in Physics and Computer Science from the Open University.
He has been studying martial arts since childhood and has a black belt in shotokan karate. He has done postgraduate work at Oxford University and is a part-time Information Technology consultant. Meaney"s science fiction began appearing in 1992 with "Spring Rain" in the July 1992 issue of Interzone.
He has published over a dozen short pieces as of 2006.
His first and second novels, To Hold Infinity and Paradox, were on the BSFA shortlists for Best Novel in 1999 and 2001. To Hold Infinity was also selected as one of the Daily Telegraph"s "Books of the Year".
(In this darkly luminous thriller, John Meaney blends grit...)