David Scrimshaw reviewed Angelmaker by Nick Harkaway
A good run
5 stars
I don't know if this is steam punk, urban fantasy or what, but it's fun.
481 pages
English language
Published 2012 by Alfred A. Knopf.
Angelmaker
5 stars
(2 reviews)
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.
Subjects
- Repairing
- Weapons of mass destruction
- Older women
- End of the world
- Psychopaths
- Fathers and sons
- Dictators
- Fiction
- Children of gangsters
- Clocks and watches
- Good and evil
Places
- England
- London
- London (England)