What infuses
Cocaine Nights is a curious blend of deadpan detachment and almost comical self-consciousness.
–The New York Times Book Review A bristling thriller pastiche.
–Kirkus Reviews A bit of metaphysical terrorism as carefully planned and executed as [a] fatal blaze.
–Washington Post [Ballard's] bleak picture of trouble in paradise has the ring of truth.
–Publishers Weekly Cocaine Nights comes at you like a conventional 'all-is-not-as-it-seems' whodunit. But all is not as it seems. Under the light crust of gentility lies a familiar Ballard landscape of sociopathic violence, transgressive sex and the inevitable pornographic web that lies in between . . . There is nothing quite like a J. G. Ballard novel.
–The Guardian