Not the End of the World - 9780802139153
Un libro in lingua di Christopher Brookmyre edito da Grove Pr, 2002
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The Guardian (London) has called comic-thriller writer Christopher Brookmyre "the next star of the genre". His American debut, Not the End of the World, is 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 pulls Lt. Larry Freeman of the LAPD out of the ho-hum assignment of overseeing the security for a B-movie film festival and headlong into a frenzied race to stop a terrorist plot. Along the way he must contend with aging porn stars, rabid evangelical Christians, a mysterious Glaswegian photographer, and an unknown agenda, all in a frenzied -- and ultimately hysterical-race against time. "Imagine Day of the Locust updated and rewritten by Carl Hiaasen. ... Good solid fun." -- Kirkus Reviews "Perpetually in-your-face: sassy, irreverent, and stylish ... [with] a high-octane sense of the absurd." -- The Times (London) "Very violent, very funny ... comedy with a political edge, which you take gleefully in one gulp." -- Literary Review
Informazioni bibliografiche
- Titolo del Libro in lingua: Not the End of the World
- Lingua: English
- Autore: Christopher Brookmyre
- Editore: Grove Pr
- Collana: Grove Pr (Paperback)
- Data di Pubblicazione: 01 Agosto '02
- Genere: FICTION
- Argomenti : Police California Los Angeles Fiction Los Angeles (Calif.) Fiction Research vessels Fiction
- Pagine: 388
- Dimensioni mm: 209 x 139 x 31
- ISBN-10: 0802139159
- EAN-13: 9780802139153