His struggles to develop relationships with his new coworkers and find his role on the team should be relatable to anyone who has ever taken a new job or enrolled at a new school. But he is smart and his reaction to the bizarre encounters he has are believable. He’s not some expert detective a la Sherlock Homes or a killing machine like Jason Bourne. Arthur Wallace has a knack for clever one liners that Wood manages to sprinkle into the narrative at the right moments without becoming too heavy handed or annoying.Īrthur Wallace is pretty much your typical ‘every man’ which helps immerse the reader into the narrative. That being said, Wood manages to create a clever and dry-witted narrative that makes for an entertaining read. Plus, there’s nothing quite as bad being stuck with an annoying or boring character for a couple hundred pages or more. Wood writes the novel No Hero in the first person perspective, which I am usually not a fan of since you only get their side of the story. Arthur Wallace soon finds himself caught up in a mission to prevent a threat that would result in our very reality from being wiped out. When he awakes in the hospital he’s approached by a mysterious woman who offers him a job with the covert government agency MI12 which is responsible for protecting England and the rest of the world from supernatural and other worldly threats. During the investigation, Wallace is grievously injured by an attack from an unknown assailant. The basic plot of No Hero is that Arthur Wallace is a top detective investigating a case that involves strange murders that occur at construction sites. No Hero by Jonathan Wood is the first book in his ‘Arthur Wallace’ series of urban fantasy/horror/weird fiction novels.

A novel without a hero