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Corgi Books 2013

8vo paperback 425 pages + 7 pages of publisher’s ads. Very, very minor bumps to covers o/w VG++ 315 gms

(Order reference 16441)

Goodreads Choice Award

Winner for Best Science Fiction (2012)

1916: the Western Front. Private Percy Blakeney wakes up. He is lying on fresh spring grass. He can hear birdsong and the wind in the leaves in the trees. Where have the mud, blood and blasted landscape of No Man’s Land gone?

2015: Madison, Wisconsin. Cop Monica Jansson is exploring the burned-out home of a reclusive – some said mad, others dangerous – scientist when she finds a curious gadget – a box containing some wiring, a three-way switch and a… potato. It is the prototype of an invention that will change the way Mankind views his world forever.