Robinson is Christopher Petit's debut novel of obsession, moral decay, voyeurism, and sexual collusion, set in a seedy and violent London, and lit by the visual brilliance of the filmmaker who wrote it. Through the shadows of this novel, from a compulsive friendship born in the pubs of London's Soho to a Warhol-like group making porn videos in an abandoned warehouse, moves the urbane figure of an impresario - Robinson. His interests are "power, pain, pleasure, and their exercise." Slowly he entices the narrator - a jaded young film editor - from controlled recklessness into scenes peopled by a new amoral underclass, artistic victims of recession. The collapsing infrastructure of London in a heat wave mirrors their burnt-out land of drugs and submission and sex and death.Dark, labyrinthine, and totally consuming, Robinson is part metaphysical detective novel, part psychological thriller. It will move and unsettle readers as it takes them to the dark side of man's soul. Read Less