Following Odysseus’s journey to return home to his beloved wife, Penelope, readers are transported into a world that easily combines the realistic and the fantastic.

Hinds adds another magnificent adaptation to his oeuvre ( King Lear, 2009, etc.) with this stunning graphic retelling of Homer’s epic. The author nonetheless plumbs richer emotional depths via Aidan’s struggles to make peace with his brother’s unexpected death and a torturous affair with a former friend’s father. An addicting read, Milman’s second novel interrogates the costs of political extremism as a tool for social change before curbing these efforts in favor of propping up a somewhat generic villain during the book’s third act. Things shake up when he meets Shiloh, an older man who offers help at suspiciously opportune moments. As the body count ramps up, Aidan goes in deeper to uncover the terrorist plot, struggling to reconcile his mixed feelings over the Swans’ actions. The Swans believe Aidan holds a key piece of code necessary for the group’s cyberwarfare efforts.

Even worse, he’s now a target of the Swans, a domestic terrorist network targeting anti-gay groups and politicians. A phone conversation with a mysterious man results in a case of mistaken identity, and Aidan must go on the run or else face the consequences for the death of his one-time lover. Following the encounter and a brief siesta, Aidan wakes up to find his companion dead. Seventeen-year-old Aidan Jamison stumbles into a terrorist plot in Milman’s ( Scream All Night, 2018) woozy page-turner.Īlone in New York for health tests, Aidan uses an app to hook up with an older gentleman at his hotel.

Scream all night by derek milman