It is a book devoted to spectacle. Nowhere Men has those literati action film thrills. A race with time, a battle between fantastic creatures, technology on the bleeding edge with ideology to match. But the battle is of wits. The gasps come in the wake of understanding as well as the grotesque. Every factor of the story is aimed at leaving the reader awestruck. Half a dozen locations with a dozen different feels, and things like book excerpts and magazine covers and pop art serve as snapshots of the world, transitions between the scenes that ground their plethora of characters in a shared history. Is this poster they've put between the Arctic exploration and the troll under the bridge important for now or is this a clue for the future? Meanwhile, the story's many threads wind around the maypole, making magic. A busy book. A bullet train, really. Its destination: cult classic. Read Full Review