"Adams, Douglas - Dirk Gently 02 - The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul 1.01b" - читать интересную книгу автора (Adams Douglas)Douglas Adams. The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
Scanned and corrected by Dirk Gently. Version 1.01, second, corrected release. When a passenger check-in desk at Terminal Two, Heathrow Airport, shot up through the roof engulfed in a ball of orange flame the usual peaple tried to claim responsibility. First the IRA, then the PLO and the Gas Board. Even British Nuclear Fuels rushed out a statement to the effect that the situation was completely under control, that it was a one in a million chance, that there was hardly any radioactive leakage at all, and that the site of the explosion would make a nice location for a day out with the kids and a picnic, before finally having to admit that it wasn't actually anything to do with them at all. No rational cause could be found for the explosion - it was simply designated an act of god. But, thinks Dirk Gently, which God? And why? What God would be hanging around Terminal Two of Heathrow Airport trying to chatch the 15.37 to Oslo. Funnier than Psycho... more chilling than Jeeves new Dirk Gently novel, The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul. Douglas Adams is the best-selling author of the Hitch Hiker books: The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, Life, the Universe and Everything, So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish, and Mostly Harmless. The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy has appeared in more forms than one might reasonably expect, most of which flatly contradict each other. It has appeared as a BBC radio series (its original form), a BBC TV series, all sorts of different records, cassettes, and CD's, a computer game, and also, apotheotically, a bath towel. A series of graphic novels is currently in preparation, and the motion-picture version is confidently expected any decade now. He is also the author of the Dirk Gently books, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul. He is currently working on another book in this series. He has also written The Deeper Meaning of Liff with John Lloyd and, most recently, the travel and wildlife book Last Chance to See, with Mark Carwardine. He is making more TV programmes these days and also frequently lectures on computers and semi-extinct parrots. He lives partly in Islington, London, partly in Provence, |
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