Tours of the Black Clock

Tours of the Black Clock, Steve Erickson¿s third novel, blends future with past and history with fantasy. The plot concerns Banning Jainlight, a fugitive American who becomes Adolf Hitler¿s pornographer. ¿The novel is more than a story,¿ said The New York Times Book Review, ¿it becomes a meditation on evil, on ¿the most evil man in the world.¿¿ Since the narrator of this meditation is himself a murderer, hardly free of the taint of evil, that absolute quality of evil is being questioned.¿ Tours of the Black Clock is a dizzying ride through one of the darkest moments--both real and imagined--of human history.