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Prentis is an insecure, cowardly, pompous and slightly paranoid senior clerk working in the police archives. Prentis believes that his boss, Chief Quinn, is manipulating certain files and begins to suspect that there is a connection between this manipulation and his father's wartime activity.
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Prentis, the narrator of this nightmarish novel, catalogs "dead crimes" for a branch of the London Police Department and suspects that he is going crazy. His files keep vanishing. His boss subjects him to cryptic taunts. His family despises him. And as Prentis desperately tries to hold on to the scraps of his sanity, he uncovers a conspiracy of blackmail and betrayal that extends from his department and into the buried past of his father, a war hero code-named "Shuttlecock"--and, lately, a resident of a hospital for the insane.
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"An astonishing study of forms of guilt, laced with a thread of detection--and outrageous humor." -The Sunday Times (London)
"A world that is half Kafka, half Orwell--joined on a cord of elegant, tough, swift writing." -San Francisco Examiner
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- PublisherPenguin Books Ltd
- Publication date1982
- ISBN 10 0140063226
- ISBN 13 9780140063226
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages219
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