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Angelmaker

Written by: Nick Harkaway
Narrated by: Daniel Weyman
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Summary

Joe Spork repairs clocks, a far cry from his late father, a flashy London gangster. But when Joe fixes one particularly unusual device, his life is suddenly upended. Joe's client, Edie Banister, is more than just a kindly old lady - she's a former superspy. 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, girls in pink leather, and threats to the future of conscious life in the universe, he realizes 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.

©2012 Nick Harkaway (P)2012 AudioGO Espionage Literature & Fiction Spies & Politics Suspense Thriller & Suspense Comedy Fiction
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The first half or 2/3 of the book is well written and compelling, with interesting dialogue and characters. The latter portion however goes rapidly to downhill, with a lot of deus ex machina, grandiose dialogue, etc and suspension of disbelief fails. Great premise, but it really seems like the author ran out of steam towards the end. Very well narrated.

Starts off great

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