Angelmaker - Hardcover

Harkaway, Nick

3.93

10,344 ratings by Goodreads

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 043402094X ISBN 13: 9780434020942

Publisher: William Heinemann, 2012

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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...

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Review:

"One of the most enjoyable books I’ve read in ages... It’s brilliantly entertaining... Pure, unhinged delight. What a splendid ride."--Patrick Ness, The Guardian

"A novel of adventure, love and intrigue... Makes the reader grin with pleasure... Harkaway has given us, for the second time, a box of delights."--The Independent

"Wildly imaginative... Wonderfully entertaining... A hardback that looks as gorgeously ornate as its contents."--The Times

"Fizzingly imaginative... A wildly, irrepressibly exuberant new-weird/fantasy/thriller/comedy."--Daily Mail

"A must for fans of John Le Carr� and Jasper Fforde..."--Elle

Book Description:

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

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