Toploader - Softcover

Ed O'Loughlin

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9780857388339: Toploader
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0857388339 ISBN 13: 9780857388339
Publisher: Quercus, 2012

Synopsis

If Joseph Heller and Carl Hiaasen had a literary love child in occupied Gaza or Iraq's Green Zone, it would be this insightful and darkly comic anti-war masterpiece. Spying inside the Embargoed Zone (aka the “Easy”) is expensive and hazardous, and the “terrorist” double agent known as Cobra needs his wages in cash. But his down-at-the-heels spymaster from the occupying forces can only pay with an American-made, top-loading washing machine. When it turns out that this piece of clothes-washing technology is critical to the occupation, a frantic scramble to retrieve the sensitive hardware ensues. Packed with unforgettable characters--including a resourceful local teenage girl, an intrepid reporter navigating the Easy, an egotistical blogger with delusions of relevance, a hapless drone pilot, and at least one very unfortunate donkey--Toploader is a savage and hilarious indictment of occupation diplomacy.

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About the Author

Ed O'Loughlin was born in Toronto and raised in Ireland. He reported from Africa for the Irish Times, and was Middle East correspondent for the Sydney Morning Herald and the Age of Melbourne. His first novel, Not Untrue & Not Unkind was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2009. His second novel, Toploader, was published by Quercus in 2011.

Review

'Ex-war reporter O'Loughlin's darkly comic thriller highlighting the hypocrisy and absurdities of the 'war against terror' is set in a dystopian future that feels all too familiar' Seven magazine. * Seven magazine * 'Ingenious ... Wonderfully rich' Sunday Telegraph. * Sunday Telegraph * 'Cynical, funny, harrowing and revelatory' Sunday Business Post. * Sunday Business Post * 'Hilarious stuff - very Dr Strangelove' Irish Times. * Irish Times * 'O'Loughlin's aims are worthy, his targets apt, and his descriptions of a war zone evocative' Independent on Sunday. * Independent on Sunday * 'darkly enjoyable war-com romp ... one absurdist delight follows another in rapid succession' Guardian. * Guardian *

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Publisher
Quercus
Publication date
2012
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0857388339
ISBN 13 
9780857388339
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
342
Rating
  • 3.36 out of 5 stars
    92 ratings by Goodreads

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