Description: In the near future, the world has become home to certain people with amazing genetic structures--giving them powers that make them frighteningly superior to normal humans. The Night Watchman was the first. Somewhere in San Francisco, he was out there--stopping a bank robbery, saving a kid from a runaway truck, whatever was needed. More "superheroes" followed, though nobody called them that--but then came the bad ones, those who took pleasure in using their powers for ill. In response came the M-Tac squads: cops specially trained to fight these super-lethal enemies. Not a typical comic book superhero novel, John Ridley introduces a brave new world of heroes and villains, and shows that there's no such thing as a Good Guy or a Bad Guy.
- John Ridley's most recent novel, A Conversation with the Mann (Warner hardcover, 6/02), hit the Los Angeles Times bestseller list and received strong reviews from Publishers Weekly and Booklist, among others. Warner will publish it in trade paperback in 6/03.
- Ridley is the author of three novels published by Knopf: Everybody Smokes in Hell (1999); Love is a Racket (1998), which was named one of the Ten Best Books of 1998 by the Los Angeles Times; and Stray Dogs (1997), which was turned into the Oliver Stone directed U Turn.
- A supervising producer on NBC's Third Watch, Ridley also wrote the screenplay for Undercover Brother and received a writing credit for Three Kings. He is a regular commentator on NPR's Morning Edition.
- Film rights to Those Who Walk in Darkness were acquired by Warner Bros. under a production deal with Joel Silver (The Matrix).

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