One Fine Day in the Middle of the Night - Softcover

Brookmyre, Christopher

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0802139809 ISBN 13: 9780802139801

Publisher: Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press, 2003

Synopsis

One Fine Day in the Middle of the Night Like a highball mix of Elmore Leonard and Carl Hiaasen, Brookmyre is back with his most lethal book yet. Gavin Hutchinson had it all planned out--a unique "floating holiday experience" on a converted oil rig, but his wife leaving him and a crashing gang of mercenaries change the party plans. Full description

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Review:

Christopher Brookmyre's One Fine Day in the Middle of the Night is a lethal farce in which nothing goes quite according to plan. The mercenaries and terrorists who seize an oil rig converted into an international resort are almost too busy wanting to kill each other to get on with the job, for one thing, and, for another, the group they take hostage are a high-school reunion rather than the conference of the internationally famous they are expecting. One of the high-school year went on to be a famous gangland hardman before reforming, and another is a darkly brilliant comic whose career is on the skids--and a couple more have spent far too much time in the cinema not to know what Bruce Willis would do... This is a splendidly constructed darkly funny novel in which the oddest things prove suddenly lethal and in which the imagined geography of a closed environment is at once a trap, and a playground for heroism, double cross and the sudden discovery of true love. The running gags and knowingness about movies ought to be less amusing than they are, but Brookmyre's underlying affection for ordinary people and contempt for bullies stops them being self-indulgent.

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"Furiously paced and wonderfully absurd, with more one-liners than a Colombian coke dealer."

About this edition

• Publisher: Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0802139809
• ISBN 13: 9780802139801
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 384