More than an alternate - history story, more than a drawing - room mystery, Farthing is a compelling story of encroaching darkness and the people who ultimately decide to resist it. (bookbrowse.com)
It had just the right feel for the story and the suspense - thriller genre, with encroaching darkness around a bright sky - colored text, and the broken wing emblem of the airline in the book. (editorialdepartment.com)
Paul Schrader glanced across the table: scrappy, lined, blinking, pressed nose, razor mind, a man of appetites, a Calvinist reborn in the 1970s as a gun - toting wild man whose dislocation and spiritual pain became the seeds of a cinema that set loose angels and demons across ever encroaching darkness. (latimes.com)