Atom : A Novel

by AYLETT STEVE

• ISBN13: 9781568581750
• ISBN10: 1568581750
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-10-16
• Publisher: Perseus Books Group

Summary

Welcome to the comic and bizarre world of Mr. Taffy Atom, private detective extraordinaire, and his voracious sidekick, Jed Helms, who just happens to be a fish. Set in the same nightmarishly noir underworld of Beerlight seen in other works by Steve Aylett, Atom follows the hero as he trails a motley pack of criminals chasing down some missing gray matter - not their own, but the pilfered brain of Time magazine's Man of the Century, the Big E. Atom is a laconic, world-weary private eye in the Bogart tradition in a world where the cops are the villains and the criminals, if not heroes, are no worse than the forces trying to maintain what passes for law and order in Beerlight. "Aylett has a cold, accurate eye, a mocking wit, and a black, playful angle of attack which has learned something from cyberpunk but has the smack of idiosyncrasy." -- Michael Moorcock

Table of Contents

Atom and Drowner	1	(10)
The Numb Town	11	(6)
We've Been Courteous	17	(6)
The Black Burden	23	(4)
There Goes My Gun	27	(6)
The Man Who Disappeared	33	(8)
Homecoming	41	(6)
Horse Feathers	47	(12)
Napoleon in the Desert	59	(8)
Mutant Jazz	67	(10)
The Gat Man	77	(6)
Whatever you Are Is Starting to Show	83	(10)
The Informer's Gift	93	(6)
Europe After the Rain	99	(6)
One in the Eye for Justice	105	(4)
A Dream	109	(6)
The Girl Who Was Death	115	(6)
Out of Space	121	(12)
The Stuff that Dreams Are Made of	133