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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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Harkaway, Nick, 1972-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2012.
Edition:1st American ed.
Subjects:
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.
Father-son relationship > Fiction.
Elderly women > Fiction.
Spy stories.
Fantasy fiction.
Humorous fiction.
Description
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.
Item Description:"Originally published in Great Britain by William Heinemann"--Title page verso.
Physical Description:481 pages ; 25 cm.
ISBN:9780307595959 (hbk.)
0307595951 (hbk.)