New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From Abacus 2003 July-Sept
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New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From Abacus JULY-SEPT 2003

Iain Banks Dead Air Pbk published July 2003 by Abacus at £7.99 ISBN: 0349116644

Ken Nott is a devoutly contrarian, vaguely left-wing radio shock-jock living in London. After a wedding breakfast, people start dropping fruit from a balcony on to a deserted car park below. As they get carried away, dropping more, they're told a plane has just crashed into the World Trade Center.

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Max Barry Jennifer Government Pbk published July 2003 by Abacus at £9.99 ISBN: 0349115982
Artwork by: Front cover image: Non Stock/Scott Cunningham. Design: Michael J Windor

A wickedly funny thriller for the No Logo generation
In Max Barry's twisted, hilarious and terrifying near future vision, the world is run by giant corporations and employees take the last names of the companies they work for. It's a globalised, ultra-capitalist, free market paradise!
Hack Nike is a lowly merchandising officer who's not very good at negotiating his salary. So when John Nike and John Nike, executives from the promised land of Marketing, offer a contract, he signs without reading it. Unfortunately, it involves shooting teenagers to build street cred for Nike's new $2,500 trainers. Hack contacts the police - but they assume that he's after a subcontracting deal and lease the assassinations to the more experienced NRA.
Enter Jennifer Government, a tough-talking agent with a barcode tattoo under her eye, and a personal problem with John Nike (boss of the other John Nike). And a gun. Hack is about to discover the power of market forces .. .
Max Barry was born in 1973 and lives in Melbourne, Australia. A former marketing executive, he now writes full-time.
A total blast. . . funny and clever' New York Times Book Review
'The most fun you'll find in a bookshop this year' Time Out New York
'Extremely funny' Time Magazine

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Julian Rathbone A Very English Agent Pbk published July 2003 by Abacus at £7.99 ISBN: 0349115087

This memoir of a police spy, takes us through the major events and intrigues of the early Victorian period. From the battle of Waterloo to the death of Wellington, it covers the voyage of the Beagle, the American Gold Rush and the suspicious death of Shelley.

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Alexander McCall Smith Tears of the Giraffe Pbk published August 2003 by Abacus at £6.99 ISBN: 0349116652

The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency introduced the world to the one and only Precious Ramotswe - the engaging and sassy owner of Botswana's only detective agency. Tears of the Giraffe, takes us further into this world as we follow Mma Ramotewe into more daring situations . ..
Among her cases this time are wayward wives, unscrupulous maids, and the challenge to resolve a mother's pain for her son who is long lost on the African plains. Indeed, Mma Ramotswe's own impending marriage to the most gentlemanly of men, Mr J. L. B. Matekoni, the promotion of Mma's secretary to the dizzy heights of Assistant Detective, and the arrival of new members to the Matekoni family, all brew up the most humorous and charmingly entertaining of tales.
Alexander McCall Smith has a double existence. He is a Professor of Medical Law, but also an author who has now written over fifty books on a wide range of subjects from the forensics of sleep to the criminal law of Botswana. His books are bestsellers in America and he is shortly to be the subject of a BBC documentary.
'A publishing phenomenon' Guardian
'A rare pleasure' Daily Telegraph

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