I have been working with Spanish playwright Vanessa Montfort even since she wrote Flashback for the Royal Court International Residency.  Also a successful novelist, her Manhattan noir Myths of New York is the second of her four prize-winning novels to date, taking us on a murderous tour of a New York composed of comics, books and movies.  In this extract published by Drunken Boat, the hero Dan Rogers drives to Long Island for Thanksgiving, briefly escaping the gruesome realities of the case he is working on.  But he is unable to flee the paranoias of his own mind.