Angelmaker

Joe Spork repairs clocks, a far cry from his late father, a flashy London gangster. But when Joe fixes one particularly unusual device, his life is suddenly upended. Joe's client, Edie Banister, is more than just a kindly old lady-she's a former superspy. And the device? It's a 1950s doomsday machine. And having triggered it, Joe now faces the wrath of both the government and a diabolical South Asian dictator, Edie's old archnemesis. With Joe's once-quiet world now populated with mad monks, psychopathic serial killers, scientific geniuses, girls in pink leather, 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 gave up years ago, and pick up his father's old gun. Nominated for the 2013 Arthur C. Clarke Award. A Kirkus Reviews "New and Notable Title", March 2012. Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award. One of the Wall Street Journal's Top 10 Mysteries of the Year. Selected for the April 2012 Indie Next List. A 2012 Los Angeles Times Book Prize Nominee for Mystery/Thriller.