This Town Will Never Let Us Go (novel)

This Town Will Never Let Us Go was the second novel in the Faction Paradox series.

Publisher's summary
From up here you can see it all, hear it all, taste most of it and feel the rest when the electric lights and the satellite signals prickle against your skin. The town, from midnight to six, marked out in headlights and the flash-fire of a culture in War-time. Séance-messages written in the patterns of the road signs, and ghost-transmissions scrambled into the background noise of the traffic. Animal scent-signals from the fried food stands. All describing something, buried under the tarmac and the street-geometry.

Down there, a girl in a fake-bone mask is working on a ritual to bring it to the surface. A popular performing artiste with a navel stud and serious identity problems is finding herself stalked — literally — by her own image. An ambulance crewman is about to find his own way of getting involved in the War.

And bringing them all together, in one neat little urban mythology, there's Faction Paradox - part cult, part subculture, part pop phenomenon, and part criminal syndicate, either watching-without-being-seen or simply not existing at all (at least until someone invents it). Assuming they're not wholly imaginary, the archons of the Faction seem like the only ones who know what this town really is - what every town really is — and what's bound to happen when it wakes up.

Plot
to be added

Characters

 * Inangela Marrero
 * Horror
 * Valentine Bregman
 * Coz
 * Tiffany Korta
 * Miss Ruth
 * The Executive
 * Black Man

Continuity

 * The Ghost Point was previously mentioned in PROSE: The Book of the War.
 * The Black Man previously appeared in PROSE: Alien Bodies.
 * Mary Culver was previously mentioned in PROSE: The Adventuress of Henrietta Street and The Book of the War.
 * Some stories exist of a woman who was re-made over and over (PROSE: Interference) until she became susceptible to the systems of the Ships of War until she became a human-Ship hybrid known as Compassion. (PROSE: The Shadows of Avalon)
 * Mention is made of the word "Bababadalgharaghtakamminarronnkonnbronntonnerronntuonnthunntrovarrhounawnskawntoohoohoordenenthurnuk", coined by James Joyce. (PROSE: The Book of the War)
 * In PROSE: White Canvas, allusion is made to the title of this novel when, while walking through Auteur's Town, Graelyn Sctthes reflects on how "this was her town, and she wondered if it would ever let her go, and if it did, where she could go from here".