- Repairing, Weapons of mass destruction, Older women, End of the world
Avoiding the lifestyle of his late gangster father by working as a clock repairman, Joe Spork fixes an unusual device that turns out to be a former secret agent's doomsday machine and incurs the wrath of the government and a diabolical South Asian dictator.
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Epic, plot-driven, contemporary and classical in form.
- intimateepic
- character-ledplot-driven
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- contemplativerelentless
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About the book
- Author
- Nick Harkaway
- First published
- 2012
- Pages
- 481
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Editions
- 1
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780307595959
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