Angelmaker
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  • Published: 2 February 2012
  • ISBN: 9781448122387
  • Imprint: RH AudioGo
  • Format: Audio Download
  • Length: 17 hr 59 min
  • Narrator: Daniel Weyman
  • RRP: $24.99

Angelmaker

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2 Feb 2012
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2 Feb 2012
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2 Apr 2013
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An adventure story, a war story, and a love story, all wound into one brilliant narrative that runs like clockwork.

From the acclaimed author of The Gone-Away World - a new riveting action spy thriller, blistering gangster noir, and howling absurdist comedy: a propulsively entertaining tale about a mobster's son and a retired secret agent who are forced to team up to save the world.

All Joe Spork wants is a quiet life. He repairs clockwork and lives above his shop in a wet, unknown bit of London. The bills don't always get paid and he's single and has no prospects of improving his lot, but at least he's not trying to compete with the reputation of Mathew "Tommy Gun" Spork, his infamous criminal dad.

Edie Banister lives quietly and wishes she didn't. She's nearly ninety and remembers when she wasn't. She's a former superspy and now she's... well... old. Worse yet, the things she fought to save don't seem to exist anymore, and she's beginning to wonder if they ever did.

When Joe fixes one particularly unusual device, his life is suddenly upended. The client? Unknown. And the device? It's a 1950s doomsday machine. And having triggered it, Joe now faces the wrath of both the government and a diabolical South Asian dictator, Edie's old arch-nemesis. With Joe's once-quiet world now populated with mad monks, psychopathic serial killers, scientific geniuses and threats to the future of conscious life in the universe, he realises that the only way to survive is to muster the courage to fight, help Edie complete a mission she gave up years ago, and pick up his father's old gun...
  • Published: 2 February 2012
  • ISBN: 9781448122387
  • Imprint: RH AudioGo
  • Format: Audio Download
  • Length: 17 hr 59 min
  • Narrator: Daniel Weyman
  • RRP: $24.99
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About the author

Nick Harkaway

Nick Harkaway was born in Cornwall in 1972. Author of the novels The Gone-Away World, Angelmaker and Tigerman, he lives in London with his wife and two children.

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Also by Nick Harkaway

Karla's Choice
Gnomon
Doctor Who: Time Trips (The Collection)
Tigerman
Doctor Who: Keeping Up with the Joneses (Time Trips)
Edie Investigates
The Gone-Away World
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Praise for Angelmaker

Angelmaker is another cracking book from Nick Harkaway. It’s a mix of sci-fi, steampunk, adventure and romance and the mix of genres work really well together … Harkaway’s Angelmaker is a brilliant piece of escapism. It’s a wonderful example of how an irreverent approach to much loved genres can lead to a truly great story.

Nudge

Splendid cornucopia of a novel

The Big Issue (Wales)

This brilliant, boundless mad genius of a book runs on its own frenetic energy, and bursts with infinite wit, inventive ambition and damn fine storytelling. You finish reading it in gape-mouthed awe and breathless admiration, having experienced something very special indeed.

Matt Haig, author of The Radleys

You're in for a treat... Dickens meets Mervyn Peake in a modern Mother London.

William Gibson

"In a gravelly yet gleeful voice, Weyman narrates this swashbuckling genre-blend of spies, gangsters, and a doomsday machine. The lavish and imaginative story of Joe Spork, a clockmaker out of his depth as he attempts to save the world, is brilliantly realized through Weyman’s attention to inflection, characterization and pacing."

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