- Fiction, Mystery, Secret societies, Vigilantes
Jane Charlotte has been arrested for murder.She tells police that she is a member of a secret organization devoted to fighting evil; her division is called the Department for the Final Disposition of Irredeemable Persons—"Bad Monkeys" for short.This confession earns Jane a trip to the jail's psychiatric wing, where a doctor attempts to determine whether she is lying, crazy—or playing a different game altogether. What follows is one of the most clever and gripping novels you'll ever read.
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Contemporary, classical in form, grave and relentless.
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- contemplativerelentless
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Matt Ruff
- First published
- 2007
- Pages
- 240
- Publisher
- Harper Collins Publishers, HarperCollins, Harper Perennial
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780061809880
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