![]() ![]() Gleeful fun with a serious edge, set forth in an almost impeccable English accent.Īre we not men? We are-well, ask Bigfoot, as Brooks does in this delightful yarn, following on his bestseller World War Z (2006).Ī zombie apocalypse is one thing. There's a downside to all this slapstick, of course: Unless Ned and Verity resolve the problem, the Nazis will win WW II. Finally, after drifting along the river in an unintentional parody of Three Men in a Boat, he locates his contact, Verity Kindle (she caused the problem in the first place). So a bewildered Ned finds himself in Oxford in 1889, wearing boating clothes, accompanied by a mountain of luggage, a regal cat in a box, and no idea what he's supposed to do next. A chronological complication that Ned is only dimly aware of, though, has arisen and must be fixed before history is changed. ![]() But Lady Schrapnell has another vital task for poor Ned: to locate a grotesque Victorian artifact known as the bishop's bird stump. ![]() After too many recent missions, operative Ned Henry is timelagged and in need of a complete rest. In 2057, the fearsome, slave-driving Lady Schrapnell has lent her authority and her money to developing time travel so that she can rebuild Old Coventry Cathedral, destroyed by Nazi bombs in 1940. Comic yarn set in the same time-traveling universe as the splendid Doomsday Book (1992), with some of the minor characters in common. ![]()
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