This is a first edition in good condition.  It was published by William Heinemann in 2012.

'Joe Spork fixes clocks.  He has turned his back on his father’s legacy as one of London’s flashiest and most powerful gangsters and aims to live a quiet life.  Edie Banister retired long ago from her career as a British secret agent.  She spends her days with a cantankerous old pug for company.  That is, until Joe repairs a particularly unusual clockwork mechanism, inadvertently triggering a 1950's doomsday machine.  His once-quiet life is suddenly overrun by mad monks who worship John Ruskin, psychopathic serial killers, mad geniuses and dastardly villains.  On the upside, he catches the eye of bright and brassy Polly, a woman with enough smarts to get anyone out of a sticky situation.  In order to save the world and defeat the nefarious forces threatening it, Joe must help Edie complete a mission she abandoned years ago, and he must summon the courage to pick up his father’s old gun and join the fight.'

This is a 1st Edition / 1st Printing (The number string is: 2 4 6 8 10 9 7 5 3 1).

Condition:

Book - Good - rubbing/bumping/wear to the corners and edges, slight discolouration and some DJ is stuck to the back cover, v.slight bumping to a few page corners, slight marking and foxing/discolouration to the page edges and soft tanning to the pages.

Dust Jacket - Average - rubbing/bumping/wear to the corners and edges, a couple of v.small nicks/tears, slight surface loss to the reverse and marking, scratches/indentations, staining, discolouration and creasing.

The DJ is not price clipped.

The DJ is in a protective plastic sleeve (non-adhesive).

 

 

 

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