“L.A. Mental caught my interest immediately and held it until the last page. A very cool concept beautifully executed.” - James Patterson
“Neil McMahon’s L.A. MENTAL is as much a mind game as it is thriller, a scientific puzzle buried in a murder mystery, all set against the surreal world of Hollywood filmmaking. Blurring genres and expectations, this is a book that challenges and thrills in equal parts.” - James Rollins, New York Times bestseller of Altar of Eden
“With L.A. Mental, Neil McMahon heads into the territory of William Gibson in a fast-moving, compelling tale that’s a blend of detective novel and might-just-be-possible science fiction, sure to leave readers hungry for more.” - Michael Koryta, author of The Cypress House, a major thriller coming in Jan. 2011.
“McMahon gives us twisting plots and intense characters we want to instantly love or hate or both, but now he also offers up a killer so cutting edge and secretly lethal that I’m sure that Homeland Security believes he got into their intelligence files on anticipated terrorist attacks. He gives us twist after turn of wonderfully crafted words wrapped around the burgeoning use of nanotechnology. These atom-size particles can save the world or, in sinister hands, end it. McMahon offers a much-needed peak into this questionable world in this gripping novel.” - Andrew Schneider, two-time Pulitzer Prize winner for investigative journalism in the areas of environment and science
“McMahon’s stellar stand-alone offers a cunning technological twist worthy of the late Michael Crichton…. McMahon easily makes a science fiction concept plausible in a pulse-pounding read that doesn’t sacrifice intelligence for thrills.” - Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“Sure storytelling and elegant writing…. An intoxicating blend of psychology, mind control, physics and movies, leavened with the more familiar plot devices of money, sex and power.” - Michael Moore, The Missoulian
“[A] punchy, potent genre mash-up-part thriller, part mystery, a pinch of sci-fi-about a Los Angeles on the verge of a mental breakdown.” - Jason Kehe, Los Angeles Magazine
“McMahon offers up a killer so cutting edge and secretly lethal that I’m sure that Homeland Security believes he got into their intelligence files. . . . Twist after turn of wonderfully crafted words.” - Andrew Schneider, two-time Pulitzer Prize winner in investigative journalism