No Hero
by:
Jonathan Wood (author)
"What would Kurt Russell do?" Oxford police detective Arthur Wallace asks himself that question a lot. Because Arthur is no hero. He's a good cop, but prefers that action and heroics remain on the screen, safely performed by professionals. But then, secretive government agency MI12 comes calling,...
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"What would Kurt Russell do?" Oxford police detective Arthur Wallace asks himself that question a lot. Because Arthur is no hero. He's a good cop, but prefers that action and heroics remain on the screen, safely performed by professionals. But then, secretive government agency MI12 comes calling, hoping to recruit Arthur in their struggle against the tentacled horrors from another dimension known as the Progeny. But Arthur is NO HERO! Can an everyman stand against sanity-ripping cosmic horrors?
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781597802826 (1597802824)
Publish date: July 1st 2011
Publisher: Night Shade Books
Pages no: 306
Edition language: English
Series: Arthur Wallace (#1)
Homicide cop Arthur Wallace gets recruited by British intelligence agency MI37 and plunged into a secret war against alien horrors called the Progeny. But one member of his team is a mole and is actually working to bring the unspeakable cosmic horror known as the Feeders into our reality...This boo...
Pretty darn strange, but fun and fascinating dark urban fantasy with lots of elements that would appeal to Lovecraft fans, and to those who don't mind a good dose of cosmic horrors and tentacles. Throw in a lot of action and British humor ala Edgar Wright (Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz), and you ha...
3.5/5Received through NetGalley from Night Shade BooksThis was an awkward book. On one side there is humour, there are distinct British accents and swear words, crazy dialogues, bunch of ditzy characters who look amazingly comical thrown together as a team of super agents: indecisive Arthur, nerdy ...
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