Attack Of The Unsinkable Rubber Ducks
Christopher Brookmyre
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Product Details
ISBN: 9780316730129
Publisher: Little, Brown
Publication Date: 02 August 2007
Format: Hardback
Language: English
Pages: 343 p.
About the Book
Jack Parlabane is dead. Or is he? In an unlikely twist of the democratic process, he had been elected Rector of Glasgow's Kelvin University, taking over the post from the celebrity psychic Gabrielle Lafayette. Lafayette's tenure had one unexpected outcome - the establishment of a chair to investigate, using rigorous scientific controls, the causes of paranormal activity: mind-reading, levitating objects, speaking to the dead, all that sort of woo-woo. Due to his highly honed skills as a sceptic, Jack is invited to be an official observer to the whole exercise. Delighted to have the opportunity to puncture the unquestioning faith of the true believers - the unsinkable rubber ducks - Jack accepts with alacrity. But the outcome of the experiment is wholly other to his expectations and threatens to scupper his own beliefs, and also his own survival.
Reviews
- "Sharply satirical and poignantly funny, this is a gripping and highly entertaining read." Time Out
- "Chris Brookmyre is a genius." Mirror
- "Brookmyre has no equal." Maxim
- "Exhilarating linguistic fluency and keenly subversive intelligence" Scotland on Sunday
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