With Joe's once-quiet world suddenly overrun by mad monks, psychopathic serial killers, scientific geniuses and threats to the future of conscious life in the universe, he realizes that the only way to survive is to muster the courage to fight, help Edie complete a mission she abandoned years ago and pick up his fathers old gun. He is the author of the novels The Gone-Away World and Angelmaker and a non-fiction study of the digital world entitled The Blind Giant: Being Human in a Digital World. Nick Harkaway was born in Cornwall, UK in 1972. On the upside, Joe's got a girl: a bold receptionist named Polly whose smarts, savvy and sex appeal may be just what he needs. Nick Harkaway (born 1972 in Cornwall, England) is a novelist and commentator. Having triggered it, Joe now faces the wrath of both the British government and a diabolical South Asian dictator who is also Edie's old arch-nemesis. And the device? It's a 1950s doomsday machine. His client, Edie Banister, is more than the kindly old lady she appears to be - she's a retired international secret agent. That orderly existence is suddenly upended when Joe activates a particularly unusual clockwork mechanism. The son of infamous London criminal Mathew 'Tommy Gun' Spork, he has turned his back on his family's mobster history and aims to live a quiet life.

The only way he can survive, is to muster the courage to fight, help Edie complete a mission she gave up years ago, and pick up his father’s old gun.Joe Spork spends his days fixing antique clocks. Joe’s once-quiet world is now populated with mad monks, psychopathic serial killers, scientific geniuses and threats to the future of conscious life in the universe.

Having triggered it, Joe now faces the wrath of both the government and a diabolical South Asian dictator, Edie’s old arch-nemesis. When Joe is asked to fix one particularly unusual device, his life is suddenly upended. She's beginning to wonder if they ever did.

She’s nearly ninety and the things she fought to save don’t seem to exist anymore. Joe Spork, son of the infamous criminal Mathew ‘Tommy Gun’ Spork just wants a quiet life, repairing clockwork in a wet, unknown bit of London.Įdie Banister, former superspy, lives quietly and wishes she didn’t. Clarke Award for Science Fiction Literature. From the acclaimed author of The Gone-Away World - an adventure story, a war story, and a love story, all wound into one brilliant narrative that runs like clockwork.

Angelmaker by Nick Harkaway