![]() Gleeful fun with a serious edge, set forth in an almost impeccable English accent.Īre we not men? We are-well, ask Bigfoot, as Brooks does in this delightful yarn, following on his bestseller World War Z (2006).Ī zombie apocalypse is one thing. There's a downside to all this slapstick, of course: Unless Ned and Verity resolve the problem, the Nazis will win WW II. Finally, after drifting along the river in an unintentional parody of Three Men in a Boat, he locates his contact, Verity Kindle (she caused the problem in the first place). So a bewildered Ned finds himself in Oxford in 1889, wearing boating clothes, accompanied by a mountain of luggage, a regal cat in a box, and no idea what he's supposed to do next. A chronological complication that Ned is only dimly aware of, though, has arisen and must be fixed before history is changed. But Lady Schrapnell has another vital task for poor Ned: to locate a grotesque Victorian artifact known as the bishop's bird stump. After too many recent missions, operative Ned Henry is timelagged and in need of a complete rest. ![]() ![]() ![]() In 2057, the fearsome, slave-driving Lady Schrapnell has lent her authority and her money to developing time travel so that she can rebuild Old Coventry Cathedral, destroyed by Nazi bombs in 1940. ![]() Comic yarn set in the same time-traveling universe as the splendid Doomsday Book (1992), with some of the minor characters in common. ![]()
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