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The Coincidence Engine
Sam Leith
Crown
February 2012
On Sale: February 7, 2012
271 pages
ISBN: 0307716422
EAN: 9780307716422
Kindle: B004PYDB8A
Hardcover / e-Book
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Humor
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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