Angelmaker / Nick Harkaway.
Author: Harkaway, Nick, 1972-
Edition: 1st American ed.
Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2012.
ISBN: 9780307595959 (hbk.)
0307595951 (hbk.)
Description: 481 p. ; 25 cm.
Subject: Clocks and watches Repairing Fiction.
Children of gangsters England London Fiction.
Fathers and sons Fiction.
Older women Fiction.
End of the world Fiction.
London (England) Fiction.
Spy stories.
Fantasy fiction.
Humorous fiction. gsafd
Notes: "Originally published in Great Britain by William Heinemann"--T.p. verso.
Summary: 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.