The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

Mass Market Paperback, 247 pages

English language

Published Aug. 13, 1988 by Pan Books.

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978-0-330-30955-4
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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 people 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 …

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Holistic detective Dirk Gently has a new client who believes he is being followed by a monster with a contract due soon. Dirk takes the case, but ignores the contract's end since he thinks the man is hallucinating. Afterwards, feeling guilty he decides to investigate. At the airport, Janice is now working for an airline and a big man named Thor is trying to fly to Norway with his hammer...

If the plot of the first book is hard to keep up, this one is even worse. But please, do not let that keep you away from enjoying this wonderful madness: Valhalla or St. Pancras, clean white linen sheets, devious marketing people and too many gods in need of worshipping. This book is just as crazy as the other one, full of hilarious and very confusing moments - it gets better every time you read it.

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