A "Wall Street Journal" and "Booklist" Best Mystery of
2012
A Best Science Fiction Book of 2012 -- "The Guardian"
"GeekDad"'s Best Adult Fiction of 2012 -- Wired.com
Finalist for the "Los Angeles Times" Book Prize and the Arthur C.
Clarke Award
A rollicking romp of a spy thriller from the acclaimed author of
"The Gone-Away World."
Joe Spork fixes clocks. He has turned his back on his father's
legacy as one of London's flashiest and most powerful gangsters and
aims to live a quiet life. Edie Banister retired long ago from her
career as a British secret agent. She spends her days with a
cantankerous old pug for company. That is, until Joe repairs a
particularly unusual clockwork mechanism, inadvertently triggering
a 1950s doomsday machine. His once-quiet life is suddenly overrun
by mad monks who worship John Ruskin, psychopathic serial killers,
mad geniuses and dastardly villains. On the upside, he catches the
eye of bright and brassy Polly, a woman with enough smarts to get
anyone out of a sticky situation. In order to save the world and
defeat the nefarious forces threatening it, Joe must help Edie
complete a mission she abandoned years ago, and he must summon the
courage to pick up his father's old gun and join the fight.
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