The Leaky Establishment
1984
First Published
3.73
Average Rating
212
Number of Pages
THE LEAKY ESTABLISHMENT is an atomic farce whose author David Langford once worked in the gentle radioactive glow of Britain's nuclear weapons industry, and hilariously satirizes its ghastly bureaucracy from the inside. Black comedy overtakes the unfortunate defence-scientist hero Roy Tappen when a "harmless" theft of office furniture lands him with his very own doomsday nuclear stockpile at home. Chain reactions of insanely comic escapades follow, with disaster piled on disaster, leading the increasingly desperate Tappen to the borders of science fiction as he seeks a way out of the mess. With an introduction by Terry Pratchett.
Avg Rating
3.73
Number of Ratings
240
5 STARS
26%
4 STARS
33%
3 STARS
31%
2 STARS
7%
1 STARS
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