| Author: |
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Sam Leith
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| Title: |
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Coincidence Engine |
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No copies available |
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| Published in: |
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English |
| Binding: |
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Paperback |
| Pages: |
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288 |
| Date: |
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2012-03-01 |
| ISBN: |
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1408821729 |
| Publisher: |
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Bloomsbury UK |
| Size: |
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0.75 x 5.08 x 7.8 inches |
| Previous givers: |
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3 Freddy (Germany), Pat Hawkes-Reed (United Kingdom), Liz Hardy (United Kingdom) |
| Previous moochers: |
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3 Susan (Germany), Liz Hardy (United Kingdom), wackowill (United Kingdom) |
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| Description: |
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Product Description
A hurricane sweeps off the Gulf of Mexico and in the back-country of Alabama, assembles a passenger jet out of old bean-cans and junkyard waste. An eccentric mathematician - last heard of investigating the physics of free will and ranting about the devil - vanishes in the French Pyrenees. And the thuggish operatives of a multinational arms conglomerate are closing in on Alex Smart - a harmless Cambridge postgraduate who has set off with hope in his heart and a ring in his pocket to ask his American girlfriend to marry him.At the Directorate of the Extremely Improbable - an organisation so secret that many of its operatives aren't 100 per cent sure it exists -- Red Queen takes an interest. What ensues is a chaotic chase across an imaginary America, haunted by madness, murder, mistaken identity, and a very large number of unhealthy but delicious snacks. The Coincidence Engine exists. And it has started to work.The Coincidence Engine is consistently engaging - one of the most enjoyable, entertaining debut novels you'll come across for ages.
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