Description
A Wall Street Journal and Booklist Best Mystery of 2012
A Best Science Fiction Book of 2012 -- The Guardian
GeekDad's Best Adult Fiction of 2012 -- Wired.com
A rollicking romp of a spy thriller from the acclaimed author of The Gone-Away World. Joe Spork fixes clocks. He has turned his back on his father's legacy as one of London's flashiest and most powerful gangsters and aims to live a quiet life. Edie Banister retired long ago from her career as a British secret agent. She spends her days with a cantankerous old pug for company. That is, until Joe repairs a particularly unusual clockwork mechanism, inadvertently triggering a 1950s doomsday machine. His once-quiet life is suddenly overrun by mad monks who worship John Ruskin, psychopathic serial killers, mad geniuses and dastardly villains. On the upside, he catches the eye of bright and brassy Polly, a woman with enough smarts to get anyone out of a sticky situation. In order to save the world and defeat the nefarious forces threatening it, Joe must help Edie complete a mission she abandoned years ago, and he must summon the courage to pick up his father's old gun and join the fight.
Author: Nick Harkaway
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 10/23/2012
Pages: 496
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.81lbs
Size: 8.01h x 5.35w x 1.02d
ISBN13: 9780307743626
ISBN10: 0307743624
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Action & Adventure
- Fiction | Thrillers | Espionage
- Fiction | Humorous | General
About the Author
NICK HARKAWAY is the author of two novels, The Gone-Away World and Angelmaker, and The Blind Giant: Being Human in a Digital World. He is also a regular blogger for the Bookseller's FutureBook website. From 1999 to 2008, he was a jobbing scriptwriter. During that time he also wrote brochure copy for a company selling bottle-capping machinery, and the website text for an exclusive lingerie boutique. He lives in London with his wife Clare, a human rights lawyer, and his daughter Clemency, an infant.