Angelmaker

481 pages

English language

Published Nov. 12, 2012 by Alfred A. Knopf.

ISBN:
978-0-307-59595-9
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OCLC Number:
743039748

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4 stars (4 reviews)

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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Review of 'Angelmaker' on 'Storygraph'

4 stars

Oh, man. Man, oh man. Here we go again with this guy Harkaway. This freaking guy. He’s totally brilliant. The long but never exasperating digressions. The improbably likable characters. The burgeoning evidence that he can’t go a book without mentioning pirates, martial arts, and incompetent bureaucrats. The sheer manliness! I don't even usually like that sort of machismo, but this guy does it right. I love this guy. Usually my reviews are middling and run on, but I don't feel qualified enough to critique this book in whole sentences.

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Subjects

  • Repairing
  • Weapons of mass destruction
  • Older women
  • End of the world
  • Psychopaths
  • Fathers and sons
  • Dictators
  • Fiction
  • Children of gangsters
  • Clocks and watches
  • Good and evil

Places

  • England
  • London
  • London (England)