Angelmaker

Author: Nick Harkaway

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  • : $32.95 AUD
  • : 9780434020959
  • : Cornerstone
  • : William Heinemann Ltd
  • : March 2012
  • : 234mm X 153mm
  • : April 2012
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Barcode 9780434020959
9780434020959

Description

An adventure story, a war story and a love story, all wound into one brilliant narrative that runs like clockwork.


 


This is from the acclaimed author of The Gone-Away World - a new riveting action spy thriller, blistering gangster noir and howling absurdist comedy: a propulsively entertaining tale about a mobster's son and a retired secret agent who are forced to team up to save the world.


 


All Joe Spork wants is a quiet life. He repairs clockwork and lives above his shop in a wet, unknown bit of London. The bills don't always get paid and he's single and has no prospects of improving his lot, but at least he's not trying to compete with the reputation of Mathew 'Tommy Gun' Spork, his infamous criminal dad. Edie Banister lives quietly and wishes she didn't. She's nearly ninety and remembers when she wasn't. She's a former superspy and now she's ...well ...old. Worse yet, the things she fought to save don't seem to exist anymore, and she's beginning to wonder if they ever did. When Joe fixes one particularly unusual device, his life is suddenly upended. The client? Unknown. And the device? It's a 1950s doomsday machine. And having triggered it, Joe now faces the wrath of both the government and a diabolical South Asian dictator, Edie's old arch-nemesis. With Joe's once-quiet world now populated with mad monks, psychopathic serial killers, scientific geniuses and threats to the future of conscious life in the universe, he realises that the only way to survive is to muster the courage to fight, help Edie complete a mission she gave up years ago, and pick up his father's old gun...

Author description

Nick Harkaway was born in Cornwall in 1972. He is the author of The Gone-Away World, which was published in 2008. He lives in London with his wife and daughter.