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Tigerman: A Novel

by Nick Harkaway

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"Sergeant Lester Ferris is a good man in need of a rest. After a long career of being shot at, he's about to be retired. The mildly larcenous, backwater island of Mancreu is the ideal place to serve out his time, a former British colony in legal limbo, belching toxic clouds of waste and facing imminent destruction by an international community concerned for their own safety. The perfect place for Lester is also the perfect location for a multinational array of shady businesses. Hence the Black Fleet of illicit ships lurking in the bay: spy stations, arms dealers, offshore hospitals, money-laundering operations, drug factories and torture centers. None of which should be a problem, since Lester's brief is to sit tight and turn a blind eye.…

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"The best post-colonial novel of the year, and also one of the slyest critiques on our comic book and video game culture. Tigerman is the funny, beautiful and sharply paced story of a retiring soldier forced to become a hero for an abandoned boy as his island home gets pulled apart by politics, science and crime. But both the boy and the man are more than they appear, and the way they come together by the end of the book will leave you knowing that Nick Harkaway, the son of spy writer John LeCarré, has the family business well in hand."
NPR Books We Love — 2014 · apps.npr.org