777 477d83ae-4f91-4ab7-89f5-1f8bf289b78c Not the End of the World Christopher Brookmyre calibre (2.82.0) [https://calibre-ebook.com] 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00 A rollicking, witty novel by the author The Guardian has called "the next star of the genre . . . [who writes in] the sassy, nasty, fast style of the Americans Elmore Leonard and Carl Hiaasen"<BR><BR>Christopher Brookmyre's critically acclaimed, award-winning comic thrillers are a sensation in his native Britain. The Times (London) has praised his writing for being "perpetually in-your-face: sassy, irreverent, and stylish" with "a high-octane sense of the absurd," and the Literary Review has raved that his books are "very violent, very funny . .E . comedy with a political edge, which you take gleefully in one gulp." Now he has his much-anticipated American debut with Not the End of the World, a fast and furious novel set in Los Angeles at the near side of the millennium, at a point when the world is about to spin out of control&#151;and maybe out of existence.<BR><BR>When an oceanic research vessel is discovered with all of its crew vanished, it sets off a chain of events that... Grove/Atlantic, Inc. eng