Nick Harkaway
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Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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"From the widely acclaimed author of The Gone-Away World and Tigerman, a virtuosic new novel and his most ambitious book yet--equal parts dark comedy, gripping detective story, and mind-bending philosophical puzzle--set in a not-too-distant-future, high-tech surveillance state. In the world of Gnomon, citizens are ceaselessly observed and democracy has reached a pinnacle of "transparency." When suspected dissident Diana Hunter dies in government custody...
2) Angelmaker
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English
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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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"Sergeant Lester Ferris is a good man in need of a rest. After a long career of being shot at, he's about to be retired. The mildly larcenous, backwater island of Mancreu is the ideal place to serve out his time, a former British colony in legal limbo, belching toxic clouds of waste and facing imminent destruction by an international community concerned for their own safety. The perfect place for Lester is also the perfect location for a multinational...
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"Cal Sounder is a detective working for the police on certain very sensitive cases. So when he's called in to investigate a homicide at a local apartment, he is surprised at first to see that the victim appears to be a rather typical, milquetoast techie. But on closer inspection, he finds the victim is over seven feet tall. And even though he doesn't look a day over thirty, he is actually ninety years old. Clearly, he is a Titan-one of this dystopian,...
5) Tigerman
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Español
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El sargento británico Lester Ferris, veterano de Iraq y Afganistán, es un buen hombre y está a punto de retirarse. Por ello, es destinado a la isla de Mancreu, una antigua colonia inglesa remota y tranquila en un limbo legal que descansa sobre nubes tóxicas de desechos y que se enfrenta a una destrucción inminente. La isla es también el lugar perfecto para infinidad de negocios turbios multinacionales: bases de espionaje, tráfico de...
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Español
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El Tubo de Jorgmund es la columna vertebral del mundo y está en llamas. Gonzo Lubitsch, héroe de profesión y solucionador de problemas, es contratado para apagarlo. Pero hay más en el incendio y en el propio Tubo de lo que parece a primera vista. El encargo llevará a Gonzo y a su mejor amigo, el narrador, de vuelta a sus propios orígenes y hasta el oscuro corazón de la Compañía de Jorgmund.
El mundo que vimos desaparecer es una aventura vertiginosa,...
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A hilarious, action-packed look at the apocalypse that combines a touching tale of friendship, a thrilling war story, and an all out kung-fu infused mission to save the world.
“A flat-out ferociously good novel.... Reads like a surrealist smashup of Pynchon and Pratchett, Vonnegut and Heller.” —Austin Chronicle
Gonzo Lubitch and his best friend have been inseparable since birth. They grew up together,...
“A flat-out ferociously good novel.... Reads like a surrealist smashup of Pynchon and Pratchett, Vonnegut and Heller.” —Austin Chronicle
Gonzo Lubitch and his best friend have been inseparable since birth. They grew up together,...
8) Silverview
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English
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"In Silverview, John le Carré turns his focus to the world that occupied his writing for the past sixty years--the secret world itself. Julian Lawndsley has renounced his high-flying job in the city for a simpler life running a bookshop in a small English seaside town. But only a couple of months into his new career, Julian's evening is disrupted by a visitor. Edward, a Polish émigré living in Silverview, the big house on the edge of town, seems...