β Scribed by Sam Leith
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
βA tremendous novelβdroll, savvy, original. An invigorating blast of fiction.β
βWilliam Boyd, Author ofAny Human HeartandRestless.β
A hurricane sweeps off the Gulf of Mexico and, in the back country of Alabama, assembles a passenger jet out of old bean cans and junkyard waste. This piques the interest of the enigmatic Directorate of the Extremely Improbable. Their fascination with this random event sets into motion a madcap caper that will bring together a hilarious cast of characters, including: an eccentric mathematician, last heard of investigating the physics of free will; a lovelorn Cambridge postgraduate who has set off to America with a ring in his pocket and hope in his heart; and a member of the Directorate with no capacity for imagination. What ensues is a chaotic chase across a fully realized, hyper-real America, haunted by madness, murder, mistaken identity, and conspiracy.The Coincidence Engineis a lively, boisterous debut that heralds the arrival of a major new talent.
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