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Brookmyre, Christopher Not the End of the World
Abacus May 4, 2006 0-349-10928-1 / 9780349109282 Paperback Near Fine
SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.1st thus. (Trade paperback) Brookmyre, a Fleet Street journalist turned fiction writer, has the rep in the UK of being a master of the comic thriller. This is his first novel pub lished in the U.S. It fully lives up to its British press, delivering fast, just this side of out-of-control action, characters at once bizarre and sy mpathetic, and a cynical take on both sides of the law. When an oceanic res earch ship is found with not a single member of its crew on board, Sergeant Larry Freeman of the LAPD, sleepwalking through his job after the death of his son, is sprung from his security duties at a shabby B-movie festival a nd assigned to the case of the missing crew. The trail takes Freeman right through the tangle of the L.A. underworld and into the middle of a terroris t plot, the untangling of which involves dealing with the crazed and confus ed--and with his own despairing inertia. Excruciating suspense. Connie Flet cher Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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10000.00 JPY
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Brookmyre, Christopher One Fine Day in the Middle of the Night
Abacus May 4, 2006 0-349-11209-6 / 9780349112091 Paperback Very Good+
Pulp Fiction meets And Then There Were None in this blend of thriller and b lack comedy. Brookmyre has a gift for keeping the reader continually off ba lance, sure only that some kind of horrific joke is about to be played, lik e the severed arm that falls out of the sky on the first day of grouse hunt ing in the Highlands, clonking a just-retired detective on the head. Two pl ot threads move toward each other: one involves a loose assemblage of merce nary terrorists, the other a 15-year class reunion organized by a classmate whom no one remembers. The threads knit together, sort of like a noose, wh en both groups board a North Shore oil rig outfitted for the tourist trade. With a dizzying display of mayhem and violence, the action then shuttles b etween the mercenaries' plot and the various amorous designs, one-upmanship games, and betrayals enacted by the reunion celebrants. Not for the faint of heart. Connie Fletcher
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500.00 JPY
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Brookmyre, Christopher One Fine Day In The Middle of the Night.
Warner Books 2001 0-7515-3183-9 / 9780751531831 Paperback Very Good
Gavin is creating a unique "holiday experience" - every facility any touris t who hates "abroad" will ever want is to be available on a converted North Sea oil rig. He hosts a school reunion to test the resort, but a group of terrorists have invited themselves to the party.
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