by Christopher Brookmyre · Abacus · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780349109282
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«Not the End of the World» is the mystery and humor novel by Christopher Brookmyre, published by Abacus in 1999 in paperback (400 pages, in English).
The crew of an oceanographic vessel disappears in the Pacific with its minisubmarine. An evangelical star holds a rally next to a Los Angeles convention; the police anticipate riots. There is a Glasgow photographer who hates hypocrisy and a terrorist with plutonium and Semtex. Brookmyre satirizes the 1990s with black humor.
The work was originally published in 1998; the Abacus paperback edition came out on June 3, 1999.
For lovers of satirical thrillers and crime fiction with black humor and social criticism.
Christopher Brookmyre is a Scottish novelist whose novels, generally in a crime or police procedural frame, mix comedy, politics, social comment and action with a strong narrative. He has been referred to as a Tartan Noir author. His debut novel was Quite Ugly One Morning; subsequent works have included All Fun and Games Until Somebody Loses an Eye (2005), Black Widow (2016) and Bedlam (2013), which was written in parallel with the development of a first-person shooter videogame, also called Bedlam. He also writes historical fiction with his wife, Dr Marisa Haetzman, under the pseudonym Ambrose Parry.
