![]() ![]() ![]() It's an ambitious, crowded, restless caper, cleverly told and utterly immune to precis. Just as blithe in its disregard of verisimilitude and generic constraint, Angelmaker flits between old-fashioned villains in London's East End and covert action in 1940s south Asia, arranging its whistlestop plot around the modern-day discovery of a weapon of mass destruction in the unlikely form of a skepful of clockwork bees. The Gone-Away World, Harkaway's well-received debut, was a slightly overfilled post-apocalyptic pick-and-mix of genres. A tragical-comical-historical-pastoral novelist, if you like or – more precisely in the case of this second book – a fantasy-gangster-espionage-romance novelist. ![]()
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