M. Van přináší do svých děl jedinečnou směsici realismu a fantazie, která často zanechává čtenáře v úžasu. Jeho styl je plný nečekaných zvratů a silných emocí, což z něj činí autora, jehož knihy nelze odložit. Van se nebojí prozkoumávat temnější stránky lidské povahy a zároveň udržovat napětí a akci až do samého konce. Jeho schopnost vytvořit uvěřitelné postavy v neuvěřitelných situacích je to, co definuje jeho literární přínos.
Trapped in a darkness threatening to destroy her mind, Julie is forced to bare her soul at the mercy of a killer. She struggles to retain her sanity as the hope of returning to her fiance dissolves with every day spent behind the glass. As Julie's story unfolds onto the page things can't get worse, until she finds that she is not alone.
The sun is dying. Humanity's experiments with space travel have turned the life-giving star into a planet-scorching red giant. The few survivors on earth now exist beneath domed radiation shields that keep the populace safe-for now. Fierce order is maintained among the people of the decaying cities by Artificial Representations, ARs, mindless and memoryless laboratory-grown cyborgs that patrol the streets, acting as judges, juries, and executioners to any who dare disturb the fragile authoritarian order. But when the image of a mysterious woman invades the supposedly empty consciousness of Enforcer 959, it sets in motion a chain of events that threatens not only to reveal the secrets of this so-called cyborg herself but also to destroy the last remaining vestiges of humanity-or save those who remain.