After a strange phone call in the middle of the night, Quinn, an author of detective stories, becomes enmeshed in a case more puzzling than any he might have written. Composed with hallucinatory clarity, City of Glass combines dark humor with Hitchcock-like suspense.
City of Glass inaugurates the intriguing New York Trilogy of novels that The Washington Post Book World has classified as post-existential private eye. . . . Its as if Kafka has gotten hooked on the gumshoe game and penned his own ever-spiraling version.