[books] MARTIN AMIS - Night Train

Frequently referred to as Amis's attempt at genre fiction, a "police procedural" or "detective" novel, but its real genre is "meta-detective novel", after the fashion of City Of Glass or La Disparition. Amis isn't as bent on disappointing the reader as Auster or Perec, though; he just wants to disappoint his characters. The narrator gets a few good lines in before the end, enough to remind me why I used to like Martin Amis.