Everybody wants to rule the world : a novel
Atkins, Ace2025
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It's 1985, what will soon become known at 'The Year of the Spy', and fourteen-year-old Peter Bennett is convinced his mom's new boyfriend is a Russian agent. 'Gary' isn't in the phone book, has an unidentifiable European accent, and keeps a gun in the glove box of his convertible Porsche. Peter thinks Gary only wants to get close to his mom because she works at Scientific Atlanta, a lab with big government contracts. But who is going to believe him? He's just a kid into BMX and MTV. But after another woman who works at the lab is killed, Peter recruits an unlikely pair of allies - a has-been pulp writer named Dennis Hotchner and his drag performer buddy and heavy, Jackie Demure. Both soon become the target of an unhinged Russian hitman (is it Gary? Maybe!) with a serious Phil Collins obsession.
Main title:
Everybody wants to rule the world : a novel / Ace Atkins.
Author:
Imprint:
London : Corsair, 2025.
Collation:
356 pages ; 25 cm
ISBN:
9781472159274 (hbk)
Dewey class:
813.6AFTHR
LC class:
PS3551.T49
Local class:
FT
Language:
English
BRN:
4293770