Jen Craig reviews The Darkest Little Room by Patrick Holland

The Darkest Little Room

By Patrick Holland

Transit Lounge Publishing, 2012

ISBN: 978-1-921924-24-8

Reviewed by JEN CRAIG

Patrick Holland’s second novel The Darkest Little Room is a pursuit, as its title suggests, of terminal, secretive spaces. Joseph, or Joe, is a 33-year-old Australian journalist living in Saigon. On the side he employs Minh Quy, an ex policeman, at fifteen percent of his own wage to help him collect compromising evidence on prominent Vietnamese political and business leaders. He also