Shooting Genji is a noir thriller set around the time of the Great Crash and Depression. As a teen, the narrator plunges from a ladder, leaving him hollow-hearted and almost blinded by daylight. However his ability to see at night is completely transformed. 

Tempted by the short-term profits to be made from his shockingly good night vision, he ends up driving at night for whiskey smugglers, shilling for Wall Street cons, and chauffeuring (and caddying) for a Hollywood scoundrel who happens to be making an erotic film of The Tale of Genji. 

Only late does he discover he’s still the guy in the dark.