Not the End of the World
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ISBN: 0871137879 / Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Pr, April 2001
A humorous novel of life on the brink of potential disaster takes readers into the heart of Los Angeles on the verge of the new millennium.
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It's the start of something big, but it's not the end of the world. Or is it?Not the End of the World is a fast-paced comic thriller set in a Los Angeles at the near side of the millenium - and on the far side of pandemonium. It's also the American debut of Christopher Brookmyre, whose novels are a sensation in his native Britain.When the oceanic research vessel Gazes Also is discovered drifting off the coast of California with all of its crew vanished, it sets off a chain of events that pulls Sergeant Larry Freeman of the LAPD out of his ho-hum assignment overseeing security for the American Feature Film Market and headlong into confronting a cadre of terrorists who threaten to tear the city apart. Along the way he has to contend with porn stars, Bible-thumping radicals, ancient textual scholars, and a three-ring media circus, all in a frenzied - and ultimately hysterical - race against time.
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