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The Wisdom Of Crocodiles
By Paul Hoffman
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Description
Across the Thames on the morning George Winnicott former head of the Anti-Terrorist Squad is to begin his new job in charge of the City of London's most powerful anti-fraud body he wakes from a nightmare screaming that he knows the meaning of life. Later that day a huge bomb explodes in the centre of London.
How are these events linked? What connects modern economics a new take on the vampire concept parachuting pornography the Leaning Tower of Pisa financial fraud terrorism aliens artificial intelligence the meaning of life and the hardest crossword clue in the world?
13 years in the writing this is a novel that engages with the way the modern world works - and in admitting that contemporary life is complex impenetrable and often terrifying it also asserts that there are ways to see the patterns emerging from the chaos.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
612
Release Date:
2002-07-01
Publication Date:
2007-06-04
Publisher:
Black Swan
Languages:
Original:
English
ISBN10:
0552770825
ISBN13:
9780552770828
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
Minimum Reading Age:
0
Weight:
708 g
Height:
127 cm
Width:
198 cm
Thickness:
36 cm
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