A Wall Street Journal and Booklist Best Mystery of 2012 From the acclaimed author of The Gone-Away World, blistering gangster noir meets howling absurdist comedy

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Angelmaker

A Wall Street Journal and Booklist Best Mystery of 2012

From the acclaimed author of The Gone-Away World, blistering gangster noir meets howling absurdist comedy as the forces of good square off against the forces of evil, and only an unassuming clockwork repairman and an octogenarian former superspy can save the world from total destruction.
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Joe Spork spends his days fixing antique clocks. The son of infamous London criminal Mathew â€œTommy Gunâ€ Spork, he has turned his back on his familyâ€™s mobster history and aims to live a quiet life. That orderly existence is suddenly upended when Joe activates a particularly unusual clockwork mechanism. His client, Edie Banister, is more than the kindly old lady she appears to beâ€”sheâ€™s a retired international secret agent. And the device? Itâ€™s a 1950s doomsday machine. Having triggered it, Joe now faces the wrath of both the British government and a diabolical South Asian dictator who is also Edieâ€™s old arch-nemesis. On the upside, Joeâ€™s got a girl: a bold receptionist named Polly whose smarts, savvy and sex appeal may be just what he needs. With Joeâ€™s once-quiet world suddenly overrun by mad monks, psychopathic serial killers, scientific geniuses and threats to the future of conscious life in the universe, he realizes that the only way to survive is to muster the courage to fight, help Edie complete a mission she abandoned years ago and pick up his fatherâ€™s old gun . . .

Country	USA
Author	Nick Harkaway
Binding	Hardcover
EAN	9780307595959
Edition	0
Format	Deckle Edge
ISBN	0307595951
Label	Knopf
Manufacturer	Knopf
NumberOfItems	1
NumberOfPages	496
PublicationDate	2012-03-20
Publisher	Knopf
ReleaseDate	2012-03-20
Studio	Knopf

Angelmaker

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