It follows Noel Burun, a psychology graduate student with synaesthesia and hypermnesia, as he sets out with three equally eccentric friends to find a wonder-drug cure for his mother's early-onset Alzheimer's.

"[4] In Moore's third novel, The Extinction Club,[5] (published 2010 by Penguin, 12 translations), Nile Nightingale is on the lam from false charges of child abduction pressed against him by his ex-girlfriend in New Jersey.

Recently orphaned of her last living relative, her grandmother, Céleste turns to Nile for her survival and to continue her battle against poachers ready to hunt the rare North American cougar to extinction.

"At its best, The Extinction Club is gripping and incisive," according to the Globe and Mail review by Darryl Whetter, who also credits the novel with integrating "philosophical inquiries into violence and predation with an undeniably dynamic plot.

Gregory J. Reid notes that "Moore's Prisoner in a Red-Rose Chain includes French-speaking characters and, therefore, code shifting" and that the novel problematizes "the minority status of English in Quebec [.