The characters have few, if any, redeeming features. Novelists don't usually have it so good, do they, when something real happens (something unified, dramatic, and pretty saleable), and they just write it down? This page is briefly stained by my tears of gratitude. You can't stop people, once they start creating. I couldn't stop them, I don't think, even if I wanted to.
I know who will be the foil, the fool, the poor foal, also utterly destroyed. I know the motive ( her motive) and I know the means. (It had better.) I know the murderer, I know the murderee. The novel opens with Samson explaining how grateful he is to have found this story, already formed, already happening, waiting to be written down. London Fields is set in London in 1999 against a backdrop of environmental, social, and moral degradation, and the looming threat of world instability and nuclear war (referred to as "The Crisis"). The other main characters are Guy Clinch, the foil Keith Talent, the cheat and Nicola Six, the murderee, who knows she will be murdered a few minutes after midnight on 5 November 1999-her 35th birthday-and who goes in search of her killer. The story is narrated by Samson Young (Sam), an American writer living in London who has had writer's block for 20 years and is now terminally ill. Regarded by Amis's readership as possibly his strongest novel, the tone gradually shifts from high comedy, interspersed with deep personal introspections, to a dark sense of foreboding and eventually panic at the approach of the deadline, or "horror day", the climactic scene alluded to on the very first page. London Fields is a black comic, murder mystery novel by British writer Martin Amis, published in 1989.
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