Harkaway, Nick, 1972-

Angelmaker / Nick Harkaway. - 1st Vintage Contemporaries ed. - New York : Vintage Contemporaries/Vintage Books, 2012. - 477 p. ; 21 cm.

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.

ISBN: 9780307743626 (tr. pbk.) 0307743624

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Clocks and watches--Repairing--Fiction.
Children of gangsters--England--London--Fiction.
Fathers and sons--Fiction.
Older women--Fiction.
End of the world--Fiction.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
London (England)--Fiction.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Spy stories.
Fantasy fiction.
Humorous fiction.