City of the Sun - David Levien

City of the Sun tells the story of a kidnapping of a young boy Jamies, and the effect it has on the devastated parents, Carol and Paul, and the private detective, Frank Behr, who they hire. It took me a couple of tries to get into this book. The first 25 pages are off-putting for two reasons: firstly, the self consciously stylised short sentences and present tense that Levien uses, and secondly, the horrible language used by Jamie's two kidnappers. However on page 25 the present tense magically disappears (with no explanation!), the writing improves and we hear much less from the two kidnappers, who only reappear occasionally throughout the book with their ...  Read the complete review