Angelmaker by Nick Harkaway

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Bibliographic Details

• Author: Nick Harkaway
• Title: Angelmaker
• Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf; First American Edition (March 20, 2012)
• Language: ‎ English
• Format: Hardcover w/Deckle Edge – 482 pages
• ISBN-10: ‎ 0307595951
• ISBN-13: ‎ 978-0307595959
• Item Weight: ‎ 1.60 pounds
• Dimensions: ‎ 6.5 x 1.6 x 9.5 inches
• Book Condition: Used – Very Good (may show minor markings on page edges)
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• First American Edition

Synopsis:

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.

 

Joe Spork spends his days fixing antique clocks. The son of infamous London criminal Mathew “Tommy Gun” Spork, he has turned his back on his family’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 be—she’s a retired international secret agent. And the device? It’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 Edie’s old arch-nemesis.

On the upside, Joe’s got a girl: a bold receptionist named Polly whose smarts, savvy and sex appeal may be just what he needs. With Joe’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 father’s old gun . . .

About the Author:

Nick Harkaway (that’s me, by the way) is a writer. He lives in London with his wife, their two children and an existentially anxious dog. He likes ordinary things like rivers and mountains, and remarkable things like modern medicine and the making of wine. He is interested in almost anything, but usually for a relatively short period of time.

He turned fifty in 2022 and does not know what he would like to do when he grows up. He would also like to know where to apply for his refund for 2020 and 2021. His wife and children are all better people than he is, which makes him feel very lucky.

Honestly, if you’re still reading at this point you may just want to get one of my books, because they are in many ways a more truthful self-description than any biog. Oh, and I also write morally disimproving thrillers as Aidan Truhen.