Tigerman by Nick Harkaway

Tigerman by Nick Harkaway

A KIRKUS REVIEWS and NPR BEST BOK OF THE YEAR
A WASHINGTON POST AND ALA NOTABLE BOK

From the award-winning author of Angelmaker, Tigerman is a novel at once heartfelt and thrilling--about parenthood, friendship and secret identities, about heroes of both the super and the everyday kind.

Sergeant Lester Ferris is a good man in need of a rest. After a long career of being shot at, he's about to retire. The mildly larcenous, backwater island of Mancreu, a former British colony in legal limbo, belching toxic clouds of waste and facing imminent destruction by an international community afraid for their own safety, is the ideal place to serve out his time. There is an illicit Black Fleet lurking in the bay: spy stations, arms dealers, offshore hospitals, drug factories and torture centers. Lester's brief, however, is to sit tight and turn a blind eye, so he drinks tea and befriends a brilliant, Internet-addled street kid with a comic-book fixation. When Mancreu's fragile society erupts in violence, Lester must be more than just an observer: he has no choice but to rediscover the man of action he once was, and find out what kind of hero the island--and the boy--will need.

Nicholas Harkaway was born in the county of Cornwall in the year 1972. He went to Clare College in Cambridge to study philosophy, sociology, and politics before working in the film industry. The Gone-Away World, Angelmaker, and The Blind Giant are among his works. He and his wife live in London.

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ISBN 13	9780385352413
ISBN 10	0385352417
Title	Tigerman
Author	Nick Harkaway
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Knopf Publishing Group
Year published	2014-07-29
Number of pages	337
Prizes	Winner of ALA Notable Books (Fiction) 2015
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