Nick Harkaway
1) Angelmaker
Author
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Language
English
Description
A rollicking romp of a spy thriller from the acclaimed author of The Gone-Away World. • "A head-spinning cliffhanger that reads a bit like Harry Potter for grownups…. It would be a shame if no movie were made from this glorious piece of kaleidoscope-fiction." —The Wall Street Journal
Joe Spork fixes clocks. He has turned his back on his father’s legacy as one of London’s flashiest and most...
Joe Spork fixes clocks. He has turned his back on his father’s legacy as one of London’s flashiest and most...
2) Tigerman
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Series
Language
Español
Description
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...
Author
Series
Language
Español
Description
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,...
4) Tigerman
Author
Language
English
Description
Lester Ferris needs a rest. He's spent his life being shot at, and Afghanistan was the last stop on his road to exhaustion. Mancreu is the ideal place for Lester to relax. A former British colony, soon to be destroyed because of its very special version of toxic pollution. But Lester Ferris makes a friend a street kid with a comic book fixation who will need a home - who might, Lester hopes, become an adopted son. But in a place like Mancreu, just...
Author
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Language
English
Description
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,...