Here Comes The Night

By Thomas Thonson

In that fulcrum moment in the early sixties, when America seems poised before an avalanche of social, cultural, and political changes, five people's lives interconnect in unexpected ways in one 24 hour period. A genre-blending work that is part thriller, part love story, part Hollywood noir, Here Comes the Night dramatizes the personal and political awakening of two women––an activist nun and a grieving housewife––caught up in the civil rights fervor of John F. Kennedy’s nomination at the 1960s Democratic convention in Los Angeles. It goes further to mine the pathos of a writer toiling in the Hollywood dream machine as he begins to realize that the medium he loves has become out of touch with the changing times. And, at the same time, it charts the journey of a budding psychopath and killer as he manifests his lifelong obsessions while triggering a terrifying doppelganger in the detective who tracks him. Weaving these stories together and bringing them to a startling climax, the book creates a haunting tableau of time and place.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Thomas Thonson
• Release date: Nov 12, 2012
• ISBN: 9781301992874

Thomas Thonson

Thomas Thonson is a screenwriter, filmmaker, and film-worker, who toils away beneath the Griffith Observatory (also known as Jor-El’s laboratory from the Superman TV show) in the Los Feliz neighborhood of Los Angeles. He has sold original screenplays and completed rewrite assignments for 20th Century Fox, Warner Bros, Disney, New Regency among others.

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