Amongst the Aliens

In The Jackal Awakens, the self-contained sequel to Jackal in the Dark, Beavers has written a gritty contemporary love story, the action of which is set in the early 80s, a decade after that of the earlier novel. The anonymous hero has moved from Los Angeles to New York, kicked his drug habit and joined Alcoholics Anonymous. Yet although the externals of his life have been smoothed into almost conformity, he is deeply dissatisfied. When he meets and invites home a straight model called Jeremy, his life changes once again - not necessarily for the better.