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Toploader

Toploader

by EdO'Loughlin (Author)

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    Paperback 2012

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Synopsis

Flora is a plucky teenage girl. Cobra is a double agent. Flint Driscoll is a reporter. Captain Smith is a military man. Moon is a bored drone pilot. Daddy Jesus is an inflictor of pain. All they have in common is a very stupid war.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 336
 Publisher: Quercus
Published: 07 Jun 2012
ISBN 10: 0857388339
ISBN 13: 9780857388339

Media Reviews
'darkly enjoyable war-com romp ... one absurdist delight follows another in rapid succession' Guardian. * Guardian *
'O'Loughlin's aims are worthy, his targets apt, and his descriptions of a war zone evocative' Independent on Sunday. * Independent on Sunday *
'Hilarious stuff - very Dr Strangelove' Irish Times. * Irish Times *
'Cynical, funny, harrowing and revelatory' Sunday Business Post. * Sunday Business Post *
'Ingenious ... Wonderfully rich' Sunday Telegraph. * Sunday Telegraph *
'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 *
Author Bio
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.