A rollicking, witty novel by the author The Guardian has called "the next star of the genre . . . [who writes in] the sassy, nasty, fast style of the Americans Elmore Leonard and Carl Hiaasen" Christopher Brookmyre's critically acclaimed, award-winning comic thrillers are a sensation in his nat
Not the End of the World
β Scribed by Christopher Brookmyre
- Publisher
- Grove/Atlantic, Inc
- Year
- 2012
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 262 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0802193862
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β¦ Synopsis
A rollicking, witty novel by the author The Guardian has called "the next star of the genre . . . [who writes in] the sassy, nasty, fast style of the Americans Elmore Leonard and Carl Hiaasen"
Christopher Brookmyre's critically acclaimed, award-winning comic thrillers are a sensation in his native Britain. The Times (London) has praised his writing for being "perpetually in-your-face: sassy, irreverent, and stylish" with "a high-octane sense of the absurd," and the Literary Review has raved that his books are "very violent, very funny . .E . comedy with a political edge, which you take gleefully in one gulp." Now he has his much-anticipated American debut with Not the End of the World, a fast and furious novel set in Los Angeles at the near side of the millennium, at a point when the world is about to spin out of control--and maybe out of existence.
When an oceanic research vessel is discovered with all of its crew vanished, it sets off a chain of events that...
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