When a Gulf of Mexico hurricane inexplicably assembles a passenger jet out of refuse, the head of the Directorate of the Extremely Improbable triggers a madcap caper involving an eccentric mathematician, a lovelorn Cambridge postgraduate and an unimaginative Directorate member. A first novel by the author of Dead Pets. 30,000 first printing.
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Sam Leith is a freelance writer and critic. A former Literary Editor of the Daily Telegraph, he now writes regularly for the Evening Standard, Guardian, Spectator, Wall Street Journal Europe and Prospect. He lives near North London's picturesque Suicide Bridge with his fiancée Alice, daughter Marlene and son Max. His cat is called Henry.
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