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The Laughing Monsters
Denis Johnson
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Description for The Laughing Monsters
Paperback. A city of heat and dirt, of guns and militia. Alone in its crowded streets, Captain Roland Nair has been given a single assignment. He must find Michael Adriko - maverick, warrior, and the man who has saved Nair's life three times and risked it many more. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FHD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 16. Weight in Grams: 177.
`In this land of chaos and despair, all I can do is wish for magic armour and the power to disappear.' Freetown, Sierra Leone. A city of heat and dirt, of guns and militia. Alone in its crowded streets, Captain Roland Nair has been given a single assignment. He must find Michael Adriko - maverick, warrior, and the man who has saved Nair's life three times and risked it many more. The two men have schemed, fought and profited together in the most hostile regions of the world. But on this new level - espionage, state secrets, treason - their loyalties will be tested to the limit. This is a brutal journey through a land abandoned by the future - a journey that will lead them to meet themselves not in a new light, but in a new darkness.
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781784700225
SKU
V9781784700225
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99-14
About Denis Johnson
Denis Johnson was the author of nine novels, one novella, two books of short stories, five collections of poetry, two collections of plays and one book of reportage. Among other honours, his novel Tree of Smoke won the 2007 National Book Award and was a finalist for the 2007 Pulitzer Prize, and Train Dreams was a finalist for the 2012 Pulitzer Prize.
Reviews for The Laughing Monsters
This high-suspense tale offer a more convincing portrait of amoral intelligence agents and the havoc they wreak than almost any journalistic account of Third World skullduggery
Washington Post Sunday
For all its chaos and complexity, The Laughing Monsters is one of Johnson's most disciplined efforts
Nathaniel Rich
Atlantic
This echoes of Graham Greene's bleak cynicism and Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, it's a gripping romp through a world of corruption, government interference, big business manipulation and all sorts of other shenanigans to boot
Doug Johnstone
Big Issue
It has an irresistible sense of hopelessness
Eva Dolan
Metro
The Laughing Monsters is part espionage thriller and part screwball comedy, and it straddles those far-flung genres with more grace than you might think possible
Edmund Gordon
Sunday Times
Washington Post Sunday
For all its chaos and complexity, The Laughing Monsters is one of Johnson's most disciplined efforts
Nathaniel Rich
Atlantic
This echoes of Graham Greene's bleak cynicism and Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, it's a gripping romp through a world of corruption, government interference, big business manipulation and all sorts of other shenanigans to boot
Doug Johnstone
Big Issue
It has an irresistible sense of hopelessness
Eva Dolan
Metro
The Laughing Monsters is part espionage thriller and part screwball comedy, and it straddles those far-flung genres with more grace than you might think possible
Edmund Gordon
Sunday Times