This high-suspense tale offer a more convincing portrait of amoral intelligence agents and the havoc they wreak than almost any journalistic account of Third World skullduggery
Washington Post Sunday
For all its chaos and complexity, <i>The Laughing Monsters</i> is one of Johnson’s most disciplined efforts
- Nathaniel Rich, Atlantic
This echoes of Graham Greene’s bleak cynicism and Joseph Conrad’s <i>Heart of Darkness</i>, it’s a gripping romp through a world of corruption, government interference, big business manipulation and all sorts of other shenanigans to boot
- Doug Johnstone, Big Issue
It has an irresistible sense of hopelessness
- Eva Dolan, Metro
<i>The Laughing Monsters</i> is part espionage thriller and part screwball comedy, and it straddles those far-flung genres with more grace than you might think possible
- Edmund Gordon, Sunday Times