The Good Men possesses a raw, jump-cut poetry and a sense of barely restrained existential crisis. The disaffected, somewhat lost characters seem to be searching for something that can never be found. The New Wave reimagined as the last wave as they are subsumed by inertia and ennui. - Gary McMahon, author of The Grieving Stones

In The Good Men, a superb switchback ride of a story, Hook displays yet again his mastery of the form, marrying a cinematic aesthetic with an admirable sense of control and economy, creating a subversive gem. - Andrew Humphrey, author of Debris

Hook observes his characters like a cinematographer. The words convey, in precise and telling detail, the mundanity of self-oppression. These mechanic(al) lives are full but paradoxically empty. The story is driven by sensuality and pursuit but somehow, behind the mask, it aches with a longing and an undefined sadness. - Stephen Volk, author of The Good Unknown

18pp