All God's Creatures: An ingenious, fast-moving satire that captures the barking-mad spirit of our age

di Anthony Gardner (Autore)

Eye Books, 2025

Religious zealots, art fraudsters and Russian spies ‍‘Hilarious, joyous and astute’ – Nicholas Coleridge Mild-mannered editor Ben Fairweather is horrified when his genteel religious magazine is taken over by a fanatical movement which holds that animals are closer than humans to God and should receive Holy Communion. Amid a national religious revival, this belief becomes mainstream and Ben is cancelled as a petphobic bigot. He finds a new job as a pianist in a nightclub. There he meets Anita Scott, a journalist bent on exposing the Russian oligarch Oleg Ogorodnikov - newly elevated to the House of Lords - whom she accuses of cultural vandalism. The scheming Ogorodnikov is actually involved in something far more sinister: a plot to take over London's financial system. Little realising that his fingerprints are all over the theological unrest too, Ben and Anita are drawn into a world of spies, art forgery, AI and murder, with their own lives on the line. Anthony Gardner's ingenious caper combines madcap excitement with a deftly satirical portrayal of the crazy beliefs, chaos-spreading Russians and rise of the robots which seem to define our age.

• Autore: Anthony Gardner
• Editore: Eye Books
• Anno: 2025
• Rilegatura: Hardback
• Pagine: 256 p.
• Dimensioni: 198 x 129 mm
• EAN: 9781785634406

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