From your acclaimed writer of The Gone-Away World – a new riveting action spy thriller, blistering gangster noir, and howling absurdist comedy: a propulsively entertaining tale in regards to a mobster’s son and a retired secret agent who are forced to synergy to save lots of the world.

All Joe Spork desires is a quiet life. He maintenance clockwork and lives above his shop in a wet, unknown little bit of London. The expenses don’t always receives a commission and he’s solitary and does not have any prospects of enhancing his lot, but at least he’s not really about Angelmaker looking to compete with the trustworthiness of Mathew ‘Tommy Gun’ Spork, his infamous criminal dad.

Edie Banister lives quietly and desires she didn’t. She’s almost ninety and remembers when she wasn’t. She’s a previous superspy and today she’s… well… aged. Worse yet, the items she fought to save don’t seem to exist any more, and she’s starting to wonder if indeed they ever did.

When Joe fixes one particularly unusual gadget, his lifestyle is abruptly upended. Your client? Unfamiliar. And these devices? It’s a 1950s doomsday machine. And having brought on it, Joe today encounters the wrath of both government and a diabolical South Asian dictator, Edie’s older arch-nemesis. With Joe’s once-quiet globe now populated with mad monks, psychopathic serial killers, medical geniuses and dangers to the continuing future of mindful existence in the universe, he realises that the only way to survive is normally to muster the courage to fight, help Edie full a mission she gave up years ago, and grab his father’s old gun…