Are computer barcodes the Mark of the Beast? Hell yeah!The End Times foretold in The Book of Revelation are coming to pass in Brentford, a peaceful London suburb, East of Ealing. Lateinos and Romiith a vast computer corporation is planning to barcode the population of the world and do away with money. The lads who frequent Brentford’s finest public house - The Flying Swan - are not going to like that! The headquarters of the sinister corporation towers into the suburban sky, casting a fearful shadow and putting the wind up the locals. Something will have to be done and when it comes to tackling Armageddon and the Apocalypse, who better to take on the task, than those two unemployed inebriates, Jim Pooley and John Omally? Well, there’s Professor Slocombe, who has certain plans of his own. And Norman from the corner shop who has just rediscovered the secrets of perpetual motion. And there is also Mr Sherlock Holmes of Baker Street, whose surprise visit to Brentford is causing something of a stir. Between the lot of them they are bound to come up with something. . . . . . .Or possibly not! Yes, they’re back, for Book Three of The Brentford Trilogy: a cast of lovable rogues, fearsome magicians, eccentric inventors and a pagan barlord whose previous adventures were documented in The Antipope and The Brentford Triangle. East of Ealing was originally published in 1984, and now seems very much ahead of its time and forces the reader to ask the cosmic question: where does Robert Rankin get his ideas from?“STARK RAVING GENIUS” - Observer