![]() (2) John Finch poised at the door to the apartment, inside of which are the bodies, the Partial, and Heretic. Beside him are his inhuman gray cap boss, Heretic, and a Partial (a kind of traitor willingly working for the gray caps). ![]() (1) John Finch, standing over two dead bodies, at the crime scene. To recap, I felt I had four possible entry points to the novel: You can read the first 68 pages of Finch here. Against this backdrop, reluctant detective John Finch must solve a strange double murder.įinch and Black Hawk Down: Repurposing Technique As in Paris during Nazi control, the gray caps attempt to give a semblance of normality by providing institutions of order like a police force, even though these institutions are often merely a façade or horrible/absurd in nature. In the novel, an inhuman subterranean species called gray caps has risen up to take control of the city and subjugate the human population. Finch is set in my fantastical city of Ambergris, but also borrows heavily from such genres as the spy novel, the noir mystery novel, and certain types of political thrillers. This is the fourth of a series of posts on my novel Finch. ![]() ![]() (Chapbook cover for Finch limited edition, available through Underland.) ![]()
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