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Shortlisted for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction ‘A tremendous novel - droll, savvy, original. An invigorating blast of fiction' William Boyd ‘A superbly entertaining brain-twister' The Times 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.

The Coincidence Engine

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Shortlisted for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction ‘A tremendous novel - droll, savvy, original. An invigorating blast... Read more

    Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
    Publication Date: 29/03/2012
    ISBN13: 9781408821725, 978-1408821725
    ISBN10: 1408821729

    Number of Pages: 288

    Fiction , Contemporary Fiction

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    Shortlisted for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction ‘A tremendous novel - droll, savvy, original. An invigorating blast of fiction' William Boyd ‘A superbly entertaining brain-twister' The Times 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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