The Clown Service
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- $12.99
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
Toby Greene has been reassigned.
The Department: Section 37 Station Office, Wood Green.
The Boss: August Shining, an ex-Cambridge, Cold War-era spy.
The Mission: Charged with protecting Great Britain and its interests from paranormal terrorism.
The Threat: An old enemy has returned, and with him Operation Black Earth, a Soviet plan to create the ultimate insurgents by re-animating the dead.
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Toby Greene keeps failing as a U.K. intelligence agent. Exiled to Section 37, whose only other member is an elderly man who seems delusional and irrational, Toby's soon caught up in the ultimate sleeper-agent plot, battling Cold War demons and his own personal one in a silly-serious supernatural spy adventure. Adams (Once upon a Time in Hell) struggles with structure; third- and first-person accounts are interspersed with stop-and-start narration of events in present-day London and its recent past. There's also a sense of familiar ground: a clueless guy gets educated by an older mentor to stop a paranormal threat, aided by a large cast of quirky folks and wink-nod references. Adams makes up for it by creating immediately likable characters and managing to imbue some overused tropes with new (un)life, giving readers just enough incentive to stick with the series.
