Angelmaker

This fantastic new novel is, like The Gone-Away World, a hugely ambitious book. Nick is juggling a clock repairman who is a gangster's son, a female super spy, an inventor of unrivalled talents, an evil south Asian dictator, a religious cult dedicated to understanding the mind of god, morticians, thieves and secret government agents in a tale that combines a steam punk aesthetic with the energy of a Jason Borne action adventure flick. It certainly shows yet again that nobody else writes like Nick Harkaway. Joshua Joseph Spork, son of a gangster, is a pretty ordinary bloke. Unlucky in love and obedient to Lilly Law, Joe spends his days mending clockwork. That is until he runs into Rodney Titwhistle and Arvin Cummerbund, a hooded creature and a spinster and her pink-eyed pug. And there's a book. Or is it a key? And a senile old man who asks for help. Before he knows it Joe is a part of something bigger than himself u global in fact. He is plunged into the dark heart of his past, of his grandfather's past, of the nation's past and he must stop what has started before the world loses all sense of meaninga Angelmaker is a story of family, philosophy, love, lust, war and revenge. But most of all it is a story of desire, a deep thirst for knowledge u and truth so profound that it has the capacity to destroy existence.