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

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
Brand Knopf
Manufacturer Knopf
Binding Hardcover
ReleaseDate 2012-03-20
Format Deckle Edge
EANs 9780307595959

Country	USA
Brand	Knopf
Manufacturer	Knopf
Binding	Hardcover
ReleaseDate	2012-03-20
Format	Deckle Edge
EANs	9780307595959

Angelmaker

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