It's strange to say this, but for me Charles felt more like a secondary character - or at least until he got sucked up into Bobby Crawford's world - whilst other characters like Dr Paula Hamilton and Dr Sanger stood out more - even though they featured less.

And that’s before you get to the dire condition of the underclass, which I was reading about recently. However, instead of finding evidence, Charles gains an understanding of the community and social set in which his brother moved.Okay, let's look at this: Marc Bolan recorded "Dandy In the Underworld" which had lyrics which referred to 'cocaine nights'.

Rife with descriptive prose and replete with similes and satirical observations, Cocaine Nights explores how society might fragment in a dystopian near future, a recurring theme in much of Ballard’s writing, and one which the author tackles adeptly.Posing as a whodunnit, or perhaps more accurately a whydunnit, Cocaine Nights is a tale awash with drugs, violence, pornography, and the odd psychiatrist. Convinced that his brother could never have committed such a heinous crime, Charles launches his own investigation and gets sucked into the resort’s dark underworld. That the repetitions not only of plot, but of specific words and phrases, adds to the sense of stylisation which accompanied, in the old days, coronations and religious rituals, and in our media age, define the camera angles and gestures of movie actors. Timings: (may differ due to adverts)4'10 - The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead11:51 - Cocaine Nights by J. Someone dive bombs him with a hang glider when he climbs to the lemon grove above the Hollingers’ burned-out villa looking for evidence.