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Bezig met laden... The Wrong Dead Guy (Another Coop Heist) (editie 2017)door Richard Kadrey (Auteur)
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. More craziness and unbounded snarkiness from Richard Kadrey. Coop, Giselle, Morty and a cat/TV/octopus hybrid are tasked with stealing a Egyptian mummy named Harkhuf from a third rate museum. Meanwhile, an incompetent security guard accidentally revives it, and becomes enslaved in the mummy's search for its mate. Coop is now semi-legit, working for the Department of Peculiar Sciences, a governmental agency with really cool gadgets. Often amusing, the book suffers for its failure to provide adequate backstories and not really connecting characters or subplots. And I am still not quite sure how Harkhuf was thwarted. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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In this fast paced sequel to The Everything Box--the second entry in New York Times bestselling author Richard Kadrey's comedic supernatural series--chaos ensues when Coop and the team at DOPS steal a not-quite-dead and very lovesick ancient Egyptian mummy wielding some terrifying magic. Coop, a master thief sort of gone legit, saved the world from an ancient doomsday device--heroism that earned him a gig working for the Department of Peculiar Science, a fearsome top secret government agency that polices the odd and strange. Now Woolrich, Coop's boss at the DOPS, has Coop breaking into a traveling antiquities show to steal a sarcophagus containing the mummy of a powerful Egyptian wizard named Harkhuf. With the help of his pals Morty, Giselle, and a professor that's half-cat, half-robotic octopus, Coop pulls off the heist without a hitch. It's not Coop's fault that when DOPS opened the sarcophagus they didn't find the mummy they were expecting. Well, it was the right mummy, but it wasn't exactly dead--and now it's escaped, using a type of magic the organization hasn't encountered before. Being a boss, Woolrich blames his underling for the screw up and wants Coop to find the missing Harkhuf and make it right, pronto. Digging into Harkhuf's history, Coop thinks the mummy is hunting for an ancient magical manuscript that will help him bring his old lover back to life. Which wouldn't be so bad if she wasn't a warrior sorceress hell-bent on conquering the world with her undead armies. Coop would very much like to run from the oncoming chaos. It's one thing to steal a mummy, but another to have to deal with head-hunting bureaucrats, down-on-their luck fortune tellers, undead mailroom clerks, and a rather unimpressed elephant. Unfortunately, there's nowhere to run. If he wants the madness to stop, he's going to have to suck it up and play hero one more time. But if Coop manages to save the world AGAIN, he's definitely going to want a lot of answers. And a raise. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999LC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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I don't think this genre is for me. If you like the Doom Patrol series, this is similar... absurdist humor, but with a Mike Hammer type story, similar to a Christopher Moore in style. Which you would think would be right up my alley... but it just isn't.
I didn't hate it, but I really didn't like it either. ( )